Thanks for your response. 

This is the limit of my understanding to date:

For "binary" I was referring to the files with extensions *.G, *.L which
I gather are built using gmake and lmake. I'm trying to understand the
format for the *.gon and *.line files that can be built into *.G and *.L files
for use with package 'map'.

Please let me know if I am thinking about this in the right way.

Iqbal


----- Original Message -----
From: Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand@nhh.no>
Date: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 1:46 pm
Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] Binary Map File
To: Iqbal Jamal <iqbaljamal@shaw.ca>
Cc: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch

> On Mon, 26 Nov 2007, Iqbal Jamal wrote:
> 
> > Greetings:
> >
> > I'm trying to create a county map of Alberta, Canada and wondering
> > how best to use the lat/lon data that I have. Do I need to 
> create a binary map file?
> > If so, how? Do these files exist at an ftp site, etc?
> 
> It seems possible that the boundaries you want may be found on 
> the WMS 
> service at http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html, but a 
> WFS service 
> would have been more use. There may be other sources - could 
> anyone with 
> insight into boundary data for counties in Alberta, presumably 
> as vector 
> polygons, please help?
> 
> I'm not sure what is meant by a binary map here - digital?
> 
> Roger
> 
> > I wanted to recreate the examples using the dataset "state".
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Iqbal
> >
> >
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