Thanks! Just confirming that I grabbed the latest version from the repo,
and it solved the problem.


On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 3:40 PM, Mark Coletti <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 2:20 PM, David Masad <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm trying to work with a shapefile of the entire world map in GeoMason,
>> and several of the polygons aren't being drawn by the portrayal (France,
>> Kazakhstan, and South Africa are the most noticeable, and there are
>> possibly others as well).
>>
>> The shapefile loads and displays all the polygons in ArcGIS and QGIS.
>> Iterating through all the geometries in Mason shows that the polygons (at
>> least something with those names) is being loaded.
>>
>> As another diagnostic, I've tried having Mason compute the area for each
>> geometry in the shapefile. France's is much smaller than it should be, and
>> South Africa and Kazakhstan are negative.
>>
>> Any idea what's going on?
>>
>> The specific shapefile I'm trying to plot is:
>> http://geocommons.com/overlays/272792
>> but I've had similar problems with other world map shapefiles as well.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> David
>>
>
>
> The first question is: which version of GeoMASON are you using?  From the
> tar ball?  Or from SVN?  If the former, what version?  Because the problem
> you are describing may have already been fixed.
>