Thread: Another Frebie Shape Map of the UK

This is a UK map I produced for the UK as a shape, it is to scale and the parts are grouped as one shape, but each coloured part may be separated!

It was a trial for my final project to create a county map of the UK as a series of shapes, wish me luck!

Nice Darren, thanks for sharing

I will also be releasing a county map shortly, again as a series of shapes!

this map is hand drawn, although it will still be to scale I chose this route to minimise the number of points for each shape otherwise the map will be slow!

Shapes will be named with the county name so easily referenced from VBA to hide and show and also change the colours to be used for charting!

Also as a hint to get people thinking, the shape points may reverse engineered and used to draw the same map on an XY chart!

The only thing I ask in return for these items is that if you create anything with them, you share!

As promised the UK Traditional counties as a set of shapes!

Each County is a seperate shape, so sections can be split off, they are all grouped as its difficult to position them. I also inculded the first map which I overlayed over the counties, this can be removed but it does show the country borders and the isle of man.

Both maps are scale maps, but both the counties map was drawn seperately and by hand, although it is fairly accurate I took some licence to reduce detail! I originally created a countymap using accurate shape files but the redraw time was small!

The second tab has a list of all shapes (there are some of the islands which I dint name!) that I named with the county. I refrained from putting the county names in the counties as text as it gets cluttered, but you could if you wanted!

Enjoy!