Date:         Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:36:09 -0700
Reply-To:     "Dennis G. Fisher, Ph.d." <dfisher@CSULB.EDU>
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From:         "Dennis G. Fisher, Ph.d." <dfisher@CSULB.EDU>
Subject:      Re: SAS Maps and Alaska Counties
Comments: To: Steve James <spj1@CDC.GOV>
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Alaska has boroughs which fill the same function as counties.  Anchorage
merged the Borough of Anchorage with
the Municipality of Anchorage and it is now called the Municipality of
Anchorage.  All the rest of Alaska is
organized into Boroughs.  If memory serves me correctly, I thought that
MapInfo had the maps of the Boroughs.

HTH
Dennis Fisher

Steve James wrote:
> Thanks.  I see that what Alaska has aren't called counties so perhaps I
> shouldn't be surprised that they have a value of 0 in a map dataset.  But
> they do have FIPS "county" codes defined for AK and in maps.counties there
> are non-zero values in the variable COUNTY. It would seem then that my only
> recourse is to modify maps.counties so that AK and HI are positioned where I
> want them, which will take some trial and error.  Has anyone done this?
>
> Steve
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