Countries I've Visited
World Map 2007
Here are links to a map of the world showing countries I've visited (as of October 2007).
This is the result of a lunchtime project to learn how to drive the ESRI Maplex label placement functionality.
It is based on an original map which
I created during testing of ESRI ArcGIS 9.2 during its development cycle.
It uses the excellent free 'Natural Earth' dataset from Tom Patterson - see
http://www.shadedrelief.com/natural/index.html,
together with the free countries, cities, lakes and rivers dataset that comes with ArcGIS.
The projection is Goode Interrupted Homolosine.
I used the Maplex label placement extension which these days comes free with ArcInfo to generate and place all the labels,
and the result was quite plausible, even though I wasn't trying to create a production cartographic product!
World Map 2011
Here is an updated map of the world showing countries I've visited, as of January 2011.
The projection is Robinson.
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