I need to draw a map with different states and I want only some selected states
to be colored. I tried to create a dummy which is =1 in those areas that need
to be colored and use a Choropleth map but it didn't work. Any suggestions?
Thanks everyone!
>----Messaggio originale----
>Da: [email protected]
>Data: 12/04/2009 19.35
>A: <[email protected]>
>Ogg: working with shapefiles converted into dta
>
>Hi everybody.
>I have a dta database which contains the indication of latitude and
longitude
>of, say, South American mineral ores. I have to find out in which country
of
>South America each mineral ore is located. Now, I could look up each
single
>point on google earth or something, but suppose I have a shapefile of
South
>America which records also the boundaries of states, by means of latitude
and
>longitude data. Is there any way I can use Stata to assign each data point
to
>the country in which it falls?
>I know I may go a little off topic since perhaps my issue can only be
>addressed with a GIS software....
>Thanks,
>
>Sheila
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