[stujames]

Sorry, I was being slow! I have found them. thanks for all your help.

[stujames]

Hi

Thanks that worked, the text is outlined which is a bit annoying but there doesn’t seem to be a way around that. I can’t seem to see country borders for downloading, are they not available?

Thanks

Stu

[stujames]

Hi

Thanks again for the quick reply, I’ve now got the text showing which is great but I still can’t see how to export to any of those formats, Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Stu

[stujames]

Hi, thanks for the quick response.

And thanks so much for that link, I’ve downloaded qgis and have imported all the shape files, I’ve had a bit of play and have gone through the menus but I can’t seem to work out a couple of things, hopefully you can help.

Firstly I would really like to be able to use the physical text labels, I have downloaded them and imported them but can only see the points and no text, what am I doing wrong?

Also, how do I export to an Illustrator compatible file?

Sorry to be a pain in the arse! I’m sure I could probably work it out if I spent a few hours on it but thought it might be quicker to ask.

Thanks again

Stu

[stujames]

Hi

I work for Dorling Kindersley and over the past year have started doing some freelance work, I came across your site and would very much like to use the data to create some maps but I’m having a few problems!

I have downloaded a load of physical data, file types such as .dbf .shp etc. but I don’t appear to have any software to open them. I work on macs and would like to be able to import this information into Adobe Illustrator so that I can work with it, is that possible? If you could point me in the direction of some free software that would enable me to do this I would be eternally grateful!

Thanks

Stu

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