Questions on the application of Mathematica to geography, including the use of the CountryData and CityData functions. Not to be confused with geodesy.
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Coloring a map of India
Below is a map of India (img).
and I can visualize it in the following way:
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Adding a new GeoProjection?
The documentation for GeoProjectionData gives a list of supported GeoProjections. I was not able to find any documentation on ...
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Sea Level Rise - How to mask on relief plot
I want to make a diagram which corresponds to sea level rise in the UK. I'm having trouble with relief plot.
So, corresponding to a 30 metre height increase of the sea, we would get the following ...
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Matching Aspect Ratios between two GeoGraphics with Entities for GeoRange
I'm making a basic 50-state map of population (using a log scale). Given the usual crucible of figuring out what to do with Hawaii and Alaska, I thought I would make the same ...
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How to make GeoListPlot rectangular?
I have a GeoListPlot as below:-
gr = {{20, 70}, {-30, 30}};
GeoListPlot[Entity["City", {"Paris", "IleDeFrance", "France"}], GeoRange -> gr]
As you can see, ...
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How to get the coordinates of the 4 vertexes of a GeoListPlot?
I have a GeoListPlot as below. How can I get the latitude/longitude coordinates of the 4 vertexes of the GeoListPlot? I need the ...
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How to remove the undesired border of the GeoGraphics?
I have created an image of Europe as below:-
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How to assess GeoZoomLevel for GeoElevationData
I'd like to fetch at most 10 000 points from GeoElevationData, regardless of the location's specification.
From my experience it usually fetches ~100-400k points ...
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How to use GeoStyling[“OutlineMap”] as GeoBackground for GeoHistogram?
Say I have some location data.
SeedRandom[123]
locs = GeoPosition[
Reverse[RandomPoint[Rectangle[{-88.6273, 29.6616}, {-84.2036, 32.7994}], 400], 2]]
I want to ...
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How to just get the elevation data of Berlin by GeoElevationData
I can plot the elevation data by this code
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Unable to convert degree to number in LatitudeLongitude and “City” Entity
I am trying to convert degree to number for some mathematical transformation. Taking London as an example, the following codes can convert the degree into a number without any problems:
Codes that ...
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Map of Ancient Rome
I managed to generate a map of the Italic Peninsula with the borders corresponding to 250BC. Is there a way I can shade the area of the Roman empire of the time?
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Find the average GDP of multiple countries at once
How would I find the average GDP of a list of countries between set years?
I know how to do it for one but I'm not sure about multiple values. I also wish to find the average population size.
An ...
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Lexical similarity graph
How to I make a weighted nodal graph of the all the countries in Europe and the language similarity between them.
I know the LexicalSimilarity gives the similarity of specific languages, but how ...
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Quantifying Country Proximity and Shared Borders
I'm trying to find a code that can quantify the proximity of countries in Europe, taking into account shared borders and I am completely stumped.
So ideally, countries that share a border have a high ...
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Cluster graph of bordered countries?
I'm looking for a way to create a nodal graph of clusters of countries that border each other.
I have the code for finding the bordering countries of, say, Germany:
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GeoDistance gives the same distances over a Table of different locations
I am generating a table of:
From latitude, longitude pairs.
To latitude, longitude pairs.
GeoDistance between the from and to locations.
The code I am using is below:
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GeoTiff data import problem, bug?
I imported land cover classes from a GeoTiff file created in QGIS, where the classes are coded by discrete values (NLCD nomenclature). But it seemed the import function mirrors the values (maybe a bug)...
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Hurricane Graphics: Help with Coloring a Graph
So currently I have a graph of latitude, longitude, and Max Rainfall generated from the code below.
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Trying to plot points of rainfall during Harvey on a map of Texas and color code points
I am trying to plot lat, lon, and maximum rainfall of hurricane Harvey on a Map of texas. I have gathered all the data inside Mathematica using station names and the WeatherData function. This is the ...
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Preparing weather data tabulated by latitude-longitude for plotting
I am currently working on a project where I am trying to plot latitude, longitude, and maximum rainfall of hurricane Harvey on a 3D plot. I have gathered all the data inside Mathematica using station ...
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Is GeoElevationData[] inconsistent?
Why dose GeoElevationData[] give different results in its one and
two argument forms?
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Mistake in Mathematica administrative division data in Africa
I would like to, firstly, report that, I think there are a number of mistakes in the administrative level data. Or, at least, it is not clear to me why there should be differences in some definitions ...
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How can I import a GIS dataset in arcGRID format?
A dataset on global aridity is published here http://www.cgiar-csi.org/data/global-aridity-and-pet-database. It's a global raster on a 10 arcsecond, so fine grained, finer than I need.
Mathematica's ...
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How can I get the country name when I put the mouse on the map?
How can I get the country name when I put the mouse on the map?
CountryData["World", {"Shape", {"Equirectangular", {0, 180}}}]
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Outline of a country as a polygon
I'd like to obtain a country map of France, as polygon xy positions so I can adjust the borders.
Currently I'm using:
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Help converting geohash string to latitude, longitude?
I'm having difficulty converting a geohash string to latitude and longitude with Mathematica and wondered if I'm missing a built in function that already has the functionality available?
(I'm still ...
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Geolocate multiple IP addresses
I would like to geolocate a few hundred IP addresses (as part of analysing server logs). What is the best way to do this using Mathematica?
Does Mathematica have any builtin functionality for this?
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How to obtain the distance (in Km/Miles and in minutes) by road ?. for example using googlemaps
How to obtain the distance between 2 geographical points (knowing the latitute and longitude)
One easy way in the web is
https://www.google.es/maps/dir/42.6897189,-8.4912382/42.\
8659508,-8.6709907/@...
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Geodesics on a sphere [duplicate]
I need to draw many geodesics on a sphere. Is it better to follow @jose
in his instructive response
to the post, Plot a partition of the sphere given vertices of polygons, using ...
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Generate the complement of the Earth's land mass polygons
I would like to get polygon covering of all water area of earth. I though of doing by inverting
Polygon[EntityClass["Country", "LandMasses"]]
How do i invert ...
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How to find what you want in curated data?
The following gives a list of all counties in the state of Maryland.
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How can I list the capital cities ending with video?
I am interested to list all the cities of earth which end with the string "video", like "Montevideo"
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Use Wolfram curated databases to determine how many randomly chosen people are needed to have a 50% chance two live in the same or adjacent states?
Background:
This question is based on one asked on the statistics stack exchange, CrossValidated.SE here. Alas, the full answer to the statistical question seems to require enormous computational ...
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RegionMember with geographical data
I'm trying to be able to calculate whether a coordinate is within a census tract. As an example, here's a particular census tract in Chicago defined as a set of polygon vertices:
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A solution to the Four-Color Theorem applied to the map Florida, USA
After struggling for a while with the problem of finding a solution to the Four-Color Theorem applied to the map Florida, USA:
List of neighbor counties for all counties in a State
Neighboring ...
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create geolabels with date-objects
I want to create a GeoGraphics with customised labels. The example dataset is:
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How can I visualize of the GDPs of main cities across large countries on a world map?
I wish to create a world map to visualize GDP data of several cities by using either
i) bubbles with different sizes, or
ii) bars with different heights.
In addition, I wish to have color options ...
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Applying the Four-color Theorem to the map of Florida [duplicate]
I'm still wrestling with the following problem; I' m attempting to apply the Four Color Theorem to the map of Florida; USA. The attribute "BorderingCounties" doesn't work for Alachua County (but, it ...
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Getting data for solar radiation
There data for it is available in the web like on pvgis or NASA. The first one deliveres data for a surface with polar and azimut angle. That would be the kind of data I need. Is there a chance to get ...
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Neighboring counties (within the State of Florida) for every county in the State of Florida
When I attempt evaluating:
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List of neighbor counties for all counties in a State
If I want to find a list of neighboring countries for a particular list of countries I can do :
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GeoListPlot[GeoPosition[…]] syntax problem
I am simply trying to plot the above position, but always got error message:
GeoListPlot[GeoPosition[{40.6643,-73.9385}]]
LatitudeLongitude::invloc: ...
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I want to plot an intersection point from 2 street names on a map
Say, I want to plot the point of 5th ave & E 79th ave in NYC on a map, how should I do it with mathematica?
Also, say I have a street, say 5th ave in NYC, can I ask to give me all the ...
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GeoListPlot: GeoLabels
GeoListPlot[AirportData[{"ORD"}], GeoLabels -> True]
shows correctly a red point, labeled ...
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Precise Color Filling with borders in a map
I would like to have a "SimplifiedArea" borders and color filling for each country exactly following the border line, but I get this rough profile
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Add marker for cities on a map using GeoRegionValuePlot
I would like to add some markers on some cities on a map (smaller or bigger depending on the values each city has)
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