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The zip codes I have are zip codes in Harris County, TX. by the way, if I turn on this option stateoutline(medium) for the last graph, all the outlines for the US are activated (ignoring the condition) is there a way to have it just outline and show TX with this option? Spopt(point(data('points.dta') xcoord(x) ycoord(y) size(tiny) fcolor(gs8))) Maptile gradegrp if state='TX', geo(zip5) mapif(state='TX') fcolor(Blues) nq(4) /// Maptile gradegrp if state='TX', geo(zip5) mapif(state='TX') fcolor(Blues) nq(4) Maptile gradegrp, geo(zip5) mapif(state='TX') Maptile gradegrp, geo(zip5) stateoutline(medium) conus Sa 'points.dta', replace //makes the POINTS data Is there a straightforward process for using one of your national-level maptile geography files (e.g., zip code, county, etc) and restricting it to plot only one state or sub-state area (e.g., just cities in the DFW metro area) as definited by the zip codes (or counties) in the master file (or otherwise feeding it a set of zip codes or counties to include) when using the maptile command?

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I merged a 5 digit zip code level file containing Texas housing values to the zip5 geography template (the database file) and kept only the zip codes related to Texas (_merge = 3) and then did the same for the coordinates file (via _ID, keeping only if _merge =3) however, when I save the resulting file (in place of the full zip5 maptile geographies data) and then plot of the resulting data the map is garbled (it looks like a mis-sorted spmap, but I wonder if in merging _ID to the polygon ID in the last step I've misunderstood how those files are joined and so my selection of the polygon IDs in the coords.dta file was incorrect (?) ). I downloaded the zip5 dataset from the maptile website. (I know there are mentions of tutorials to create new maptile geographies in the presentation on the website, but I dont wish to write a program to make a new geographic template at this point) Michael Stepner - I'm trying to use -maptile- to map values for a subset of the national zip code level data from the website.

Additionally, the geography templates can be easily shared and used by others. As a result, the syntax for making highly customized maps using maptile can be very simple. When using maptile, most of these customizations are stored away in the geography template. As its help file states, “spmap gives the user full control over the formatting of almost every map element, thus allowing the production of highly customized maps”. Without spmap, maptile would not exist.Ī key contribution of maptile is its very accessible syntax. spmap is an outstanding program which runs behind-the-scenes to draw each map when you run maptile. Maptile is built on top of Maurizio Pisati’s spmap. These templates are easy to create and share.Ĭheck out the maptile website for further details! The map itself is drawn using geography templates, which can be downloaded here. It divides the areas on the map into groups and shades them in increasing intensity according to the value of the variable being plotted. It is now available in the SSC, with thanks to Kit Baum.

For the fictive map in question here the option should be okay though when EPSG:3857 or EPSG:900913 is choosen.Maptile makes it easy to map a variable in Stata. Don't use this option for non-fictive maps. I expect that this option is only to be used when MapTiler should create an image viewer because there is no option to locate the input image on the globe. The screenshots also show that “Image Based Tiles (Raster)” was selected.

Choosing “Google Maps compatible (Spherical Mercator)” would set up the layer for both EPSG:3857 and EPSG:900913. Thus I suggest replacing the projection selection box with a box that contains only 2 entries – named to match the respective options in MapTiler's “Selection of the tile profile” screen. For the projection handling in those layers, I think we should ask Kling what is the best way to handle them.įrom looking at the screenshots in is seems MapTiler is only able to generate EPSG:3857/EPSG:900913 and EPSG:4326 tiles.

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