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Plot globe with country borders

I'm wanting to plot a simple globe with the international borders on it. The part I'm missing is some sort of database for the borders. I found topo data, so I can get the continental borders (coarsely) by plotting a contour as level 0, but I'd like the internal borders too if possible. I don't have the mapping toolbox. Can anyone point me to a data set?

"Chuck37 " <chuck3737@yahooremovethis.com> wrote in message <i7te7j$5q5$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> I'm wanting to plot a simple globe with the international borders on it. The part I'm missing is some sort of database for the borders. I found topo data, so I can get the continental borders (coarsely) by plotting a contour as level 0, but I'd like the internal borders too if possible. I don't have the mapping toolbox. Can anyone point me to a data set?

Perhaps this?

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7550

Ross

"Ross W" <rosswoodskiwi@hotmail.com> wrote in message <i7tgpk$pqe$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> "Chuck37 " <chuck3737@yahooremovethis.com> wrote in message <i7te7j$5q5$1@fred.mathworks.com>...
> > I'm wanting to plot a simple globe with the international borders on it. The part I'm missing is some sort of database for the borders. I found topo data, so I can get the continental borders (coarsely) by plotting a contour as level 0, but I'd like the internal borders too if possible. I don't have the mapping toolbox. Can anyone point me to a data set?
>
> Perhaps this?
>
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/7550
>
> Ross

Yeah, I saw that but it requires the mapping toolbox. I want the borders, but not for $1000 or whatever. I found a shapefile of political borders. Anyone know of a way to read a shapefile without the mapping toolbox? The description of the format looks a little too complex to knock out my own in an hour or two.

May be download one the maps on this: http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/worldout.htm
Save the gif image.

Get the FEX http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/25048-plot-earth

Then:

plotearth('NEOMap','worldout.gif')

Bruno

On Sep 29, 8:04 am, "Chuck37 " <chuck3...@yahooremovethis.com> wrote:
> I'm wanting to plot a simple globe with the international borders on it.  The part I'm missing is some sort of database for the borders.  I found topo data, so I can get the continental borders (coarsely) by plotting a contour as level 0, but I'd like the internal borders too if possible.  I don't have the mapping toolbox.  Can anyone point me to a data set?

Try this (free) mapping toolbox for Matlab:
http://www.eos.ubc.ca/~rich/map.html
It has world maps.