Re: st: Getting error message when using tmap

[Maurizio Pisati <maurizio.pisati@galactica.it>]

Dear Daniel,
as indicated in the User's Guide available from the SSC Archive, -tmap- 
version 2.0 requires that boundary files be sorted by _ID.
Best,
Maurizio Pisati




At 17.24 31/01/05 -0500, you wrote:

> Dear Statalisters,
>
> When I use tmap using a coordinate file I created from Census geography 
> data, I consistently get an error message saying ``master data not sorted''
> Does anyone have any thoughts as to why I get this error from the 
> following script?  When I use Scott Merryman's find county-level maps, I 
> do not have this problem; when I use SuperPUMA maps that I generated from 
> the Census bureau's geography data, I get this error.  I imagine this 
> means that the problem is in how my polygon data are sorted, but I cannot 
> figure out what the difference is between the setup for my data and Scott 
> Merryman's.  Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>
> clear
> use http://solidarity.flanner.nd.edu/data/SPUMA.dta
> save SPUMA.dta
> clear
> set obs 9
> gen _ID = _n
> gen data = uniform()
> tmap chor data, id(_ID) map(SPUMA.dta)
>
> Thank you,
> Daniel Lawson
>
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