Show HN: A free collection of maps for every country in the world, in 11 sizes

Re:Show HN: A free collection of maps for every country in t... by robinhood on Friday September 27, 2013 @03:21PM (#6458937)

Well, I created them one year ago using Fireworks. I didn't understand the importance of saving them in .svg back then. Now I do :-) I'm planning to export all the vectors to Illustrator, then saving them in .svg, then putting them in Github too.

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Re:Show HN: A free collection of maps for every country in t... by roel_v on Friday September 27, 2013 @05:40PM (#6459751)

You didn't seriously trace all maps in Fireworks, did you? Do you realize you can download shapefiles for all countries from multiple places on the net, and then render them at all desired sizes and styles with an afternoon worth of programming?

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Re:Show HN: A free collection of maps for every country in t... by robinhood on Friday September 27, 2013 @06:48PM (#6460035)

Yeah - I've been really dumb on this one, I know :-)

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Re:Show HN: A free collection of maps for every country in t... by kgmpers on Friday September 27, 2013 @04:53PM (#6459503)

Turn them into .svg, then load them all into http://icomoon.io/app/, and release it as an icon font set.

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Re:Show HN: A free collection of maps for every country in t... by aw3c2 on Saturday September 28, 2013 @06:17AM (#6461467)

That's been done years ago http://www.dafont.com/geobats.font

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Re:Show HN: A free collection of maps for every country in t... by jjsz on Friday September 27, 2013 @03:55PM (#6459117)

I prefer SVG because of Inkscape. Hopefully you can find separate states / municipals / counties from the original file I submitted...

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