Visio Guy 
Map of North America
Posted by Visio Guy on September 22nd, 2006 4676 views
A few weeks ago, I uploaded the map of Europe Visio diagram. This file provided convenient access to all the shapes of Europe, all neatly arranged relative to one another, living in harmony with peace and unity. Alle Menschen werden Brüder... Today we have the same pain-free (ie: no Shape Search) treatment for North America.
AND, we finally have a short post from the VisioGuy!
(Download map_northamerica.zip)
To help the folks out in search land, this drawing contains Visio shapes of the following countries:
EN: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Montana, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming, Washington, West Virginia, Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, Saskatchewan, Yukon Territory, Aguascalientes, Baja California Norte, Baja California Sur, Campeche, Chiapas, Chihuahua, Coahuila De Zaragoza, Colima, Distrito Federal, Durango, Guanajuato, Guerrero, Hidalgo, Jalisco, Mexico, Michoacan de Ocampo, Morelos, Nayarit, Nuevo Leon, Oaxaca, Puebla, Queretaro de Arteaga, Quintana Roo, San Luis Potosi, Sinaloa, Sonora, Tabasco, Tamaulipas, Tlaxcala, Veracruz-Llave, Yucatan, Zacatecas
DE: Kalifornien, Columbia (Distrikt), Neufundland und Labrador, Nordwest-Territorium, Yucon-Territorium, Baja California (Nord), Baja California (Süd), Mexiko
October 23rd, 2006 at 9:01 pm
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October 31st, 2006 at 10:59 pm
[…] Nia hao ma and g’day folks! This week, we’ve got a Map of Asia & Australia for you to download. This complements the Map of North America, Map of Europe, and Map of Central & South America that we’ve offered you earlier. […]
March 22nd, 2007 at 8:04 pm
How would one go about laying out a grid on this map which identifies Long and Lat? I’d like to be able to geocode addresses of network resources and then place them on the world map based on their long and lat. Easy enough to do in Google maps but I need to generate this information in visio so I can easily overlay different types of resource maps. Any ideas?
March 28th, 2007 at 6:14 am
Hi Ben,
Visio supports automation, so you can programmatically “do stuff”, say, using the built-in VBA for starters, or a .NET programming language.
That said, we’re not sure if the map shapes contain any kind of latitude or longitude information. There *is* some sort of info stored in the shapes, but we’re not sure what it is.
I imagine one could pick a few known points (like Seattle, Miami, Anchorage, etc.) and do some sort of calibration coding that would allow an approximate placement of geo-coded shapes. Knowledge of what type of projection the shapes are might help too. I think you can find formulas on the web for coverting lat/long info into x-y coordinates for particular map projections.
June 19th, 2007 at 6:37 pm
Black…
You a right. Thank you….
July 10th, 2008 at 8:55 pm
It was my understanding that in 2007 you could plot things like address or store locations on a map of a state like Mississippi as long as the address were in access or excel. Is that true, if so how?
Thanks
July 15th, 2008 at 4:52 pm
Hi Chris,
I’m not sure how much geo-coding the Visio 2007 map shapes have. They do have some info that allows them to be positioned relative to each other, but I think that’s just graphical info, not real geo-coding.
There is a hidden field called “User.MapData” inside of each map shape, but I’m not sure exactly what it is for.
So the answer is not “No”, it’s “I’m not sure”.
Visio 2007 has a lot of cool data-related features, and it may be that with just a little coding or some clever setting-up, you can get what you are looking for. Maybe someone else will chime in with a comment…
Here are two slightly-related articles that might be of interest to you:
Getting geography data from Visio
Flags of the World
July 15th, 2008 at 4:59 pm
Hi again, Chris,
One thing that you could do with Visio 2007 Professional is link Data Graphics (data-related annotations/adornments to shapes) to state-shapes from Excel data. But the key to the data would be fairly simple, such as State = “Mississippi”
It wouldn’t be a fancy-schmancy geo-coded, address-lookup relationship.
So for example, you could have a U.S. Map or a region thereof, and show sales performance based on color–from your Excel data. Hot states could be red, under-performing states could be blue, etc, depending on how you defined the Data Graphic.
- Chris
July 17th, 2008 at 11:31 am
I did show how to use MapPoint and Visio to create a Bubble Chart in my blog: here.
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Hi Chris,
On your map of Canada you do not correctly depict the Northwest Territories and Nunavut.
Gordon
July 22nd, 2008 at 7:57 pm
Hi Gordon,
1. “I” didn’t depict anything. I modified shapes that ship with Visio.
2. How ’bout some references or input as to what is wrong or missing or upside down?
Cheers,
Chris