Visio Guy 
Map of World
Posted by Visio Guy on April 23rd, 2007 7938 views
Well, it's been a while since any map-drawings have found their way to the Visio Guy blog-bits. And, judging by the messages I've been reading in the newsgroups, as well as personally receiving, there are a few more maps that you folks would like to see.
Since Mrs. Visio Guy and I are spending this year traveling around the world, it seemed appropriate that we offer up a map of the world for you to download!
So here we have it: in between hikes through rainforests, sky-diving adventures, and dolphin-watching tours, I've managed to produce a Visio drawing that shows all the countries of the world.
The shapes I used came from an older version of Visio (they have a copyright date of 1999), so there will have been border changes, and countries have surely appeared, been renamed, or disappeared entirely. (One change that comes to mind: Zaire is now Congo-something) But I imagine the shapes will nevertheless provide useful graphics for your geographic needs.
The drawing contains the usual Visio Guy map features, plus a few new ones:
- Each shape has a Custom Property (Shape Data field) that holds the name of the country
- Country-names are displayed on each shape on the page -- this field is linked to the Custom Property (Shape Data field)
- Shapes can be automatically arranged and sized to each other via the right-click menus: Arrange to Page and Arrange to Shape
- Master shapes for each country can be found in the Document Stencil
- Master icons are color-coded by region to ease the search in a stencil with 165 masters!
(You can see there's quite a few masters in the stencil -- it's probably just easier to copy the shapes from the drawing and paste them elsewhere!)
Happy mapping!
Download Map of World Visio drawing
Download Map of World (Visio 5).zip (1043 KB)
June 21st, 2007 at 12:37 pm
Dear Mr. Visio Guy,
i have a big problem and i hope you can help me. I have to do some changes with some country shpes. For example i have to split russia, because it’s to big and i just need the west side west side. could you tell me please, what’s the bvest way to do this?
another porblem is, that i have to color germany with 4 different colors but i have no idee how do that. do you have any hint for me?
i’m looking forward to yur answer and sorry for my englisch.
kind regards
andrea
June 21st, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Servus Andrea,
Ich habe vier Jahre in Muenchen gelebt, so…
Es gibt eine Feature in Visio, wobei man einen Shape teilen/schneiden kann. Du kannst, z.B. eine Linie quer ueber Russland zeichnen, dann Russland und die Linie zusammen markieren. Unter der Menue: Shape > Operations > Fragment kannst du die Shapes schneiden.
(Ich habe U.S. English Visio auf meinem Rechner, hoffentlich kannst du die Menues auf deutsch finden)
Gleichweis kannst du Deutschland auch trennen…und die verschiedenen Teile individuell faerben. Nachher kannst du die Teile zusammen gruppieren. Siehe: Shapes > Grouping > Group.
- Chris
July 10th, 2007 at 8:32 pm
I wish I spoke german.
July 11th, 2007 at 4:02 am
Ok, ok Michael
There is a feature in Visio, where you can slice shapes into pieces. For example, Andrea just wanted a piece of Russia, since the shape stretches from Europe to Siberia. To slice up Russia, just draw a line over the top of it, select Russia and the line, then choose:
Shape > Operations > Fragment
This will cut Russia into two pieces (or more if there are separate islands…) You can either delete the pieces you don’t want, or give them different colors, etc. If you still want Russia to move as a single shape after you’ve reformatted the pieces, just select all the pieces and choose Shapes > Grouping > Group, or Ctrl+G to group the shapes together.
- Chris
August 23rd, 2007 at 6:33 pm
Thank you SO MUCH!!
Finding a Visio world map has been a nightmare, you have done it!
November 28th, 2007 at 11:33 am
Just to say “thank you” for this great job.
Real valuable stuff.
Yannick (from France)
December 17th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
Can you please save the map in an earlier version? I have Visio 2000, therefore I haven’t been able to open the map yet.
December 17th, 2007 at 10:50 pm
Hi Sandra,
I’ve posted a Visio 5.0 version of the map. That should work for you!
- Chris
January 18th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
Chris,
really great your global Map.
I spend hours to find one.
Thanks a lot for the effort you put into this shape.
regards from Bonn,
MArkus
January 18th, 2008 at 7:31 pm
Tag Markus!
Freut mich, dass die Weltkarte dir geholfen hat!
Tschüss,
- Chris
March 24th, 2008 at 8:30 pm
Meinen freunden - du hast forgotten the Great Lakes in the USA?
I am feeling quite parched…
March 24th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
Art,
Uh…anticipating global warming…???
I figured at the world-level, folks would just want the political borders. The lakes are in the Map of North America, though!
- Chris
March 24th, 2008 at 9:00 pm
Chris - have you tried matching up the North America map to the South America map?
And with the last 8″ of snow we received - I am more worried about flooding than global warming…
March 24th, 2008 at 9:23 pm
Hey Art,
I just tried putting North & South America together, and was surprised that they actually fit quite nicely! I would have thought that they were from different projections.
But when I used the built-in alignment code (that you access via the right-mouse menu), I’ve found that Canada’s Northern Territories has some bad data and isn’t lining up correctly. So you get half-credit for a BUG!
- Chris