Update to "Creating maps with Stata"

The guide to Creating maps with Stata has been updated. Users of Stata 9.1 or a more recent version can now convert shapefiles directly to Stata format with a new program called shp2dta. Read the guide to learn more.

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Friedrich Huebler, 13 April 2006, Creative Commons License

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