Questions tagged [geography]
Questions on the application of Mathematica to geography, including the use of the CountryData and CityData functions. Not to be confused with geodesy.
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GeoJSON Problems - UK Parliamentary Constituencies
I want to plot the new parliamentary boundaries for the upcoming general election.
This will use an NIHR API to grab the map location of the FID=3, the 3rd parliamentary constituency in alphabetical ...
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Exporting bathymetry data in GeoTiff format
I have some bathymetry data in WGS84 UTM15N in {x,y,z} format.
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Making Adjacency Matrix from Maps
I want to make an adjacency matrix for the world/each country at a specified administrative level. This is very easy to do for countries in Mathematica, but is not straightforward for different ...
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Finding the closest interpreted point in GeoDistance
I'd like to know how far away I am standing from the path of totality for the 2024 solar eclipse.
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Length of a continental perimeter
Excluding the islands, how can the length of the perimeter of a continent be calculated?
To make the question more concrete, what is the length of perimeter of the African continent, excluding the ...
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Getting Area from GeoGraphics
I want to find the area covered by the reservoir of a dam using a satellite image.
This is what I have so far.
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Combining ReliefPlots with GeoGraphics/Converting ReliefPlots into GeoGraphics
I want to use .DEM files with GeoGraphics[]. For example, adding labels, or changing projections.
In my attempt, I import the example data from Wolfram.
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Using AI to get the geographic locations of a list of banks
I have a list of banks from Bloomberg, and am looking to locate them on the world map,
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What's the function to find a city nearest to a given latitude?
I have recently started programming in Mathematica and I am currently struggling to find a way to locate the nearest city based on a given latitude. I have looked into ...
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How to get the centroid of a geographical region? (or: the center of mass of Croatia is in Bosnia and Herzegovina, but where exactly?) [duplicate]
How can I get Mathematica to calculate the centroid of an extended geographical region (say, a country) in a way which (i) fully respects the spherical nature of the Earth, and (ii) involves a minimal ...
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Latitude and Longitude values in GeoGraphics Image [duplicate]
I want to plot the Sicily with a lat/lon grid and respective values. This is what I've done so far:
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GeoNearest[] between current location and a list of GeoPositions[]: Documented example is not producing documented output
First off I am doing this for recreational purposes only, so it's not the end of the world if I cannot figure this out. I am trying to utilize the GeoNearest[] ...
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How to paint world map with some data?
I have a dataset which associate each country to respective number, from a list with few countries, as shown below:
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List of large cities in Pakistan
Bug introduced in 12.2.0 or earlier and persisting through 13.1.0
I am using v12.2.0-Win7-x64.
I have been experimenting with Geo* command syntaxes and came across ...
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Distance to the ocean
Given a GeoPosition, what is the recommended method to calculate its distance from the ocean?
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As an example, Atlanta is ...
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