On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 12:11 PM, Darren Norris <doo...@hotmail.com> wrote: > how about simply using what already exists? > For example, > Brazil [data freely available (but may need to cite the source which may > defeat what you are trying to achieve?) at: > ftp://geoftp.ibge.gov.br/mapas/malhas_digitais/municipio_2005/E500/Proj_Geografica/ArcView_shp/ > ] > has three sub-administrative layers (region, state, municipality). > overlay a random polygon of your new country somewhere in the country > (should be big enough) and you will end up with at least 2 administrative > layers? > If you want can then shift the coordinates to any location (ocean, middle of > a desert etc)...... > What am I missing?
That's an idea, but someone *might* recognise their state boundaries, even shifted into the Atlantic and maybe even rotated and given a silly name. I just like the idea of creating totally fictitious regions! That's another interesting problem - creating fake names for regions. I suppose you could have a set of prefixes and suffixes and join them randomly... Reminds me of the time a few years ago I did a quiz round by printing country and UK county outlines onto paper and cutting the paper into circles so nobody knew where north was. It did confuse people... Barry _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
