Hi there

I am looking to do a program based around an outline of the British Isles. I want to draw the British Isles as a set of points, and then within the area created do other things.

Could someone give me some advise where I can get the co-ordinates for the British Isles? I have been looking at Google's Geocode but am left a little confused (hence a stupid question).

the only way I can see to get this data is to plot the points in Google Map and copy each long lat and then save this to a file so I can load it into processing and then draw my points using the map function?

Am I missing something?

Thank you

Sounds like a good plan, not sure how I would re-draw this with points in processing?

alright, i used this map : http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Isles.svg to get the outlines and created a dotted version of it. You can download it here : http://files.getdropbox.com/u/1152794/British_Isles_dots.svg

if it doesnt look the way you need it, just use the basic svg and do it yourself in illustrator or another program like this. You can also get more information out of the map like the names and overlay them on for example...

One question, as I trawl through this data and trying to learn SVG. If I want to mark locations on this image, in Processing, how do I translate my location (co-ordinates) to the correct location on the map?

I forgot to mention this, sorry. This is the reason I wanted to draw the outline using Processing because I could use the map function to both draw the outline and mark the relevant locations.