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Question: What do you think of when you hear: “Leinster, Munster, Connacht and Ulster?”
No, that’s not the name of the law firm on Boston Legal.
These are the provinces of Ireland, and today is March 17th! So Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone!
To celebrate, we’ve got a Visio map of Ireland for you to download and put to good use.
So we’ve had this experimental Visio drawing containing crude attempts at 3D states laying around since 1993. But we only had three states: Washington, Oregon and California. Well after a few years, a few new Visio features, and some wisdom gained, we’ve finally gotten off our butts and written a little code that helped us produce something a little more useful: an entire map of the USA, where each shape can be extruded into the vertical! [Read more…] about 3D Extruded Map of USA
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.
Ola Visio Amigos! Following on the heels of the Map of Europe and the Map of North America, this week brings us a map of South & Central America, that you can download at the end of the article. Some of the islands of the Caribbean are also included.
As usual, the color treatment and text have been added for your convenience!