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Re:Show HN: My weekend project - NewsMap by rmason on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @05:51PM (#4071156)
Poorly drawn US map detracts greatly from your excellent effort.

For example here's how the state of Michigan should look:

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NvbQgmBVvV4/TyGBIIw0a5I/AAAAAAAAA5...

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project - NewsMap by mhlakhani on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @06:10PM (#4071238)
I was using the map from http://jvectormap.com/maps/countries/usa/

I'll look into the fix, however. Thanks!

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project - NewsMap by vog on Tuesday June 05, 2012 @06:41PM (#4071369)
I like the "Natural Earth" data sets very much, which I can really recommend:

http://www.naturalearthdata.com/

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Re:Show HN: My weekend project - NewsMap by bjornd on Wednesday June 06, 2012 @01:48PM (#4075097)
The map just presents the state border including the water.
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