This example processes the MAPS.AFRICA map data set, supplied with SAS/GRAPH, to produce a new map data set that contains no internal boundaries. This is done by adding a new variable, REGION, to the ...

LAST month Kai Krause, a computer-graphics guru, caused a stir with a map entitled "The True Size of Africa", which showed the outlines of other countries crammed into the outline of the African ...

which at first appears to dominate a huge section of the map. However, as the outline is dragged down towards the continent of Africa and the equator, Russia begins to shrink. By the time the ...

Common projections shrink the size of Africa, but experts have long debated whether creating a precise map is possible.