Hi Michael, Thanks!

What i'm aiming at is to replicate the US map (by metro regions) just like
shown in the link but i need to plot my own data.

I'm not sure i understand your idea. Is there a simple way to replicate the
map?

Best regards,
Carlos


On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 2:52 PM, Michael Denslow
<michael.denslow@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi Carlos,
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:00 AM, Carlos Hernandez
> <carlos.uni2@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dear all,I'm using Google Insight data and I would like to "translate"
> the
> > US map (with metro divisions) to a shape file.
> >
> > The maps i'm interested in appears in the following link (after clicking
> on
> > "Metro" on the top right of the US map).
> >
> > http://www.google.com/insights/search/?hl=en-US#q=coldplay&geo=US&cmpt=q
> >
> > Do you have any advice on how to transform this map to a shape file? Is
> > there a simple way to do this?
>
> There may be a way to take the shapefile all at once but why not just
> download the csv file (top of the page) and bind it to the existing
> attribute table of a metro area file?
>
> I would be interested to know how you end up doing it,
> Michael
>
> > Best regards,
> > Carlos
> >
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