Filling polygons in spmap with patterns instead of colors

[Joshua Smith]

Dear All,

I would like to know how to fill a polygon in Stata using the command spmap with stripes instead of full color. I use a mac.

Thanks!

[Nick Cox]

spmap is from SJ/SSC, as you are asked to explain.

Stripes, stipples, polka dots, and so forth are not on offer from official Stata.

Sergiy Radyakin has done some work in this area, but I can't tell you about the current availability of his programs or their adaptability to this problem. He gave a very interesting talk at the 2009 Stata Conference, but the links at
https://ideas.repec.org/p/boc/dcon09/10.html appear dead.

[Joshua Smith]

Thank you very much, Nick!

[Sergiy Radyakin]

findit parea

will bring an example for pattern-filled area charts.

Example continues working in modern Stata's (here is output from Stata 13). Whether this will work in anything other than MS Windows is to be confirmed. Note that the package itself is marked OS-specific, so on non-Windows you will need to download it manually.