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I'd like to make a world map with a blue coloured ocean and transparent land surface (to be used later as an overlay). With:

map = GeoGraphics[
  CountryData["World", {"SchematicPolygon", "Equirectangular"}], 
  GeoRange -> {{-90, 90}, {-180, 180}}, GeoBackground -> Transparent]

I get the opposite, i.e. ocean is transparent and land is coloured. How can this be reversed?

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Something like this?

polygon = CountryData["World", "SchematicPolygon"];
image = ExampleData[{"TestImage", "Lena"}];
GeoGraphics[{GeoStyling[{"GeoImage", image}], polygon}, GeoBackground -> LightBlue, GeoRange -> "World", GeoProjection -> "Bonne"]

enter image description here

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Better if both images have the same dimensions. Anyway.

p = CountryData["World", "Polygon"];
rose = Import["ExampleData/rose.gif"];
mask = Graphics[{EdgeForm[Black], p}];
blueOcean = ColorReplace[mask, White -> Blue];
ImageAdd[ImageMultiply[rose, ColorNegate@mask], blueOcean]

Mathematica graphics

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  • $\begingroup$ Thanks! This works; however the resulting mask and final graphic is no longer a GeoGraphics object. I'd like to keep it that way because I'd like to subsequently also project the graphic using one of the projection transformations of Mathematica 10. $\endgroup$
    – hippo3773
    Apr 8, 2015 at 20:37
  • $\begingroup$ Sorry, only version 9 here... $\endgroup$
    – Dr. belisarius
    Apr 9, 2015 at 14:15

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