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Map of Ireland
March 17, 2009 – 1:48 pm | No Comment | 7360 views
Map of Ireland

Download a Visio map of Ireland to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day!

European Cup 2008 Auto-Updating Visio Diagram (v2)
June 21, 2008 – 8:49 am | 2 Comments | 7466 views
European Cup 2008 Auto-Updating Visio Diagram (v2)

UPDATE!
Hey football/soccer fans! We’ve got an update to our automated smart drawing for this years European Cup soccer tournament.
Perhaps you are familiar with the first version, which can be found here: European Cup 2008 …

European Cup 2008 Auto-Updating Visio Diagram
June 9, 2008 – 1:49 pm | 22 Comments | 11873 views
European Cup 2008 Auto-Updating Visio Diagram

Visio is a natural choice for creating brackets for sports tournaments.
I have seen many elimination-tournament diagrams created in Visio over the years. In fact, just a few years ago, a very nice example was done …

European Cup 2008 Country-Flag Visio Shapes
June 1, 2008 – 11:04 pm | 3 Comments | 19272 views
European Cup 2008 Country-Flag Visio Shapes

We’ve created sixteen Visio shapes that combine individual country-outlines with corresponding national flags. Whether you are sprucing up an Euro Cup 2008 related diagram, or creating other geographically related diagrams, be sure and get these shapes!

Map of UK Counties and Boroughs
April 4, 2008 – 12:14 pm | 4 Comments | 8590 views
Map of UK Counties and Boroughs

David Parker, of bVisual Ltd, has created a really cool map of the UK’s counties and boroughs, and released it for download. Have a look at the article here: UK Counties and Boroughs Map Shapes …

Map of Germany
March 1, 2008 – 2:28 pm | 4 Comments | 10987 views
Map of Germany

The Geographic Map Shapes & Drawings are an extremely popular feature of this web-site. And since a lot of our readers speak German, or come from Germany, it seemed like this post was long overdue.
So …

3D Extruded Map of USA
July 18, 2007 – 3:14 am | 9 Comments | 17133 views
3D Extruded Map of USA

Download an attractive 3D map of the United States, where individual state shapes can be extruded into the vertical, allowing you to create a geographical bar chart!

Map Distance Dimension Line
July 13, 2007 – 3:14 am | 8 Comments | 9326 views
Map Distance Dimension Line

Download a dimension-line shape that can be set to match the scale of an imported background images, maps or plans. You can then accurately measure and document dimensions on the imported graphic.

Multi-Earth Shape
June 6, 2007 – 3:14 am | 6 Comments | 12837 views
Multi-Earth Shape

Download an Earth shape that lets you choose from four views: the Americas, Europe, Australia or Asia. You can style the shape with one of four color-schemes. And for devs, there’s some VBA code for setting multiple Geometry.isHidden cells.

Map of World
April 23, 2007 – 1:46 am | 42 Comments | 39697 views
Map of World

Download a map of the World, with nicely formatted and labeled shapes.

Map of Asia & Australia
October 31, 2006 – 10:56 pm | 12 Comments | 17263 views
Map of Asia & Australia

Download a map of Asia and Australia, with nicely formatted and labeled shapes.

Map of South & Central America
October 23, 2006 – 9:00 pm | 4 Comments | 9524 views
Map of South & Central America

Download a map of the South and Central America, with nicely formatted and labeled shapes.

Map of North America
September 22, 2006 – 10:05 am | 17 Comments | 17853 views
Map of North America

Download a map of the North America, with nicely formatted and labeled shapes.

Map of Europe
September 3, 2006 – 8:17 am | 15 Comments | 51622 views
Map of Europe

Download a map of the Europe, with nicely formatted and labeled shapes.