Questions tagged [geography]
Questions on the application of Mathematica to geography, including the use of the CountryData and CityData functions. Not to be confused with geodesy.
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How to perform a reflection operation in GeoReposition?
I noticed that the outline of the British map is very similar to that of Shaanxi Province in China. The only drawback is that Northern Ireland is separated from the Great Britain Island: ...
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How to use vertex attributes as labels in GeoGraphPlot?
I would like to plot a map using GeoGraphPlot with some cities, using "Name" attribute for labels. The code for this ...
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GeoJSON Problems - UK Parliamentary Constituencies
I want to plot the new parliamentary boundaries for the upcoming general election. This will use an NIHR API to grab the map location of the FID=3, the 3rd parliamentary constituency in alphabetical ...
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Making Adjacency Matrix from Maps
I want to make an adjacency matrix for the world/each country at a specified administrative level. This is very easy to do for countries in Mathematica, but is not straightforward for different ...
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Length of a continental perimeter
Excluding the islands, how can the length of the perimeter of a continent be calculated? To make the question more concrete, what is the length of perimeter of the African continent, excluding the ...
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Combining ReliefPlots with GeoGraphics/Converting ReliefPlots into GeoGraphics
I want to use .DEM files with GeoGraphics[]. For example, adding labels, or changing projections. In my attempt, I import the example data from Wolfram. ...
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What's the function to find a city nearest to a given latitude?
I have recently started programming in Mathematica and I am currently struggling to find a way to locate the nearest city based on a given latitude. I have looked into ...
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Latitude and Longitude values in GeoGraphics Image [duplicate]
I want to plot the Sicily with a lat/lon grid and respective values. This is what I've done so far: ...