MAPs in version 20

[Art Kendall]

I am looking for someone who I can phone in the US or skype anywhere who
has some experience with Maps on the graphboard.

The old VAX version of Graphics in the 80s  could do the things I would
like to do.  It came with all the US state, US county, Canadian
districts, world country boundaries.
It had a  variety of projections, etc.

Version 20 is supposed to bring back the capability to do maps. I have
several questions the answers would help me get started.

e.g.,
Is it possible to change the size and orientation of the map.
Massachusetts is much wider than it is tall.
Is there a place with the US states, Counties by state, and states by
zip shape files already exist for use with SPSS?

Can I produce a large format map in pdf or jpg format?  say 17 by 11
that I can have done at Staples, Fedex,  or an online source?
(many desktop printers can do legal size paper so that would be great).

if I edit a graph made with chart builder in the output window and save
a template can I apply it to a map from graphboard?

I found a shape file on TIGER for MA and got it into SPSS I also have
the longitude and latitude for 400 facilities in MA.  I can get a small map.
How can I edit this syntax to get a larger map in landscape orientation?
GGRAPH
   /GRAPHDATASET NAME="graphdataset"
     VARIABLES=longitude[LEVEL=ratio] latitude[LEVEL=ratio]
accuracy[LEVEL=nominal]
     MISSING=LISTWISE REPORTMISSING=NO
   /GRAPHSPEC SOURCE=VIZTEMPLATE(NAME="Coordinates on a Map"[LOCATION=LOCAL]
     MAPPING( "color"="accuracy"[DATASET="graphdataset"]
     "latitude"="latitude"[DATASET="graphdataset"]
"longitude"="longitude"[DATASET="graphdataset"]))
     VIZSTYLESHEET="Traditional"[LOCATION=LOCAL]
     LABEL='COORDINATES ON A REFERENCE MAP: latitude-longitude'
     DEFAULTTEMPLATE=NO
     VIZMAP="MA"[LOCATION=LOCAL TYPE=REFERENCE ].

--
Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

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[ViAnn Beadle]

AFAIK, the only way to resize ANY graphic coming from Graphboard is to
stretch it in the viewer by grabbing the resize handles.
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Kendall
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Subject: MAPs in version 20

I am looking for someone who I can phone in the US or skype anywhere who has
some experience with Maps on the graphboard.

The old VAX version of Graphics in the 80s  could do the things I would like
to do.  It came with all the US state, US county, Canadian districts, world
country boundaries.
It had a  variety of projections, etc.

Version 20 is supposed to bring back the capability to do maps. I have
several questions the answers would help me get started.

e.g.,
Is it possible to change the size and orientation of the map.
Massachusetts is much wider than it is tall.
Is there a place with the US states, Counties by state, and states by zip
shape files already exist for use with SPSS?

Can I produce a large format map in pdf or jpg format?  say 17 by 11 that I
can have done at Staples, Fedex,  or an online source?
(many desktop printers can do legal size paper so that would be great).

if I edit a graph made with chart builder in the output window and save a
template can I apply it to a map from graphboard?

I found a shape file on TIGER for MA and got it into SPSS I also have the
longitude and latitude for 400 facilities in MA.  I can get a small map.
How can I edit this syntax to get a larger map in landscape orientation?
GGRAPH
   /GRAPHDATASET NAME="graphdataset"
     VARIABLES=longitude[LEVEL=ratio] latitude[LEVEL=ratio]
accuracy[LEVEL=nominal]
     MISSING=LISTWISE REPORTMISSING=NO
   /GRAPHSPEC SOURCE=VIZTEMPLATE(NAME="Coordinates on a Map"[LOCATION=LOCAL]
     MAPPING( "color"="accuracy"[DATASET="graphdataset"]
     "latitude"="latitude"[DATASET="graphdataset"]
"longitude"="longitude"[DATASET="graphdataset"]))
     VIZSTYLESHEET="Traditional"[LOCATION=LOCAL]
     LABEL='COORDINATES ON A REFERENCE MAP: latitude-longitude'
     DEFAULTTEMPLATE=NO
     VIZMAP="MA"[LOCATION=LOCAL TYPE=REFERENCE ].

--
Art Kendall
Social Research Consultants

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