Thanks to NaturalEarth, OpenHeatMap now has states and provinces worldwide

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  • October 25, 2010 at 1:17 am #4079

    Nathaniel
    Keymaster

    @Pete: You’re welcome! Please feed any corrections our way so we can stay current, either in the forum here or using the Corrections tab above. We have an update to roll out for some better naming on 50% of the data in the most populous, largest geography countries. Sometime this fall into winter on timing. Keep up your good work!

    July 14, 2011 at 11:53 pm #4080

    sean.power@karmadata.com
    Participant

    I agree, this was not easy to find, and I am so grateful to NaturalEarth. I will certainly be using this data in my site, and I hope to be able to contribute here. I am now looking for UN Region and Subregion shapefiles… any ideas?

    July 15, 2011 at 12:11 am #4081

    Nathaniel
    Keymaster

    @Sean: You’ll want to do a data join from the UN region and subregion codes for each country based on the country name or UN / ISO id. Then dissolve based on the region and subregion codes.

    July 15, 2011 at 4:26 pm #4082

    sean.power@karmadata.com
    Participant

    Oh, I’ve done the data join bit, and have the list of countries per UN Region / SubRegion, and the polygons for each. That is not the issue. It is the “dissolve” bit that I am a little fuzzy on (how to get rid of the interior boundaries) :-)

    July 15, 2011 at 5:48 pm #4083

    Nathaniel
    Keymaster

    In QGIS… Vector > Geoprocessing > Dissolve.

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