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.