Map of Countries

This plugin allows you to displays maps of countries, world regions, and regions within countries that you choose from a list. This can be useful if you want to plot geolocalized networks on it.

Release history

Sept. 24, 2013: 1.0, first release
Oct 19, 2014: 1.1, removed labels from background nodes because they were just an inconvenience. Jan 1, 2015: 1.2, fixed a null pointer exception.
May 13, 2015: 1.3, added a new feature: districts and regions from countries. Australian states / territories are the first addition.
Aug 05, 2015: 1.4, added a new feature: "Weight" allows to control the thickness of the lines of the borders


Feb 23,2017: 1.5, added a "background-map" attribute to the edges of the map so that they can be filtered independently from the network.

Comments and feedbacks

www.clementlevallois.net.

Acknowledgements

Thanks to Alexis Jacomy who built "GeoLayout", on which this plugin is very largely based.

The maps are provided by Bjorn Sandvik, thematicmapping.org. The note attached to the dataset says:

"Use this dataset with care, as several of the borders are disputed.

The original shapefile (world_borders.zip, 3.2 MB) was downloaded from the Mapping Hacks website:
http://www.mappinghacks.com/data

The dataset was derived by Schuyler Erle from public domain sources.
Sean Gilles did some clean up and made some enhancements."


Dataset for Australian states from: Australian Bureau of Statistics.