Labels of Maps in STATA

[danishussalam]

Dear Everyone,

Can anyone please tell me how to label maps in STATA? like I just need my map to show the names of the district or any variable that holds some information about that district.

This is the code i'm using:

spmap adm2 using sl_coordinates.dta, id(id)

where adm2 is the variable which includes names of the 14 districts coded from 1-14

Thanks!

[Marcos Almeida]

You may try this:

. spmap adm2 using "sl_coordinates.dta", id(id) label(xcoord(x_c) ycoord(y_c) label(adm2))

Hopefully that helps!

Best,

Marcos

[danishussalam]

You may try this:

. spmap adm2 using "sl_coordinates.dta", id(id) label(xcoord(x_c) ycoord(y_c) label(adm2))

Hopefully that helps!

Best,

Marcos

It doesn't. It gives an error saying:

. spmap adm2 using "sl_coordinates.dta", id(id) label(xcoord(x_c) ycoord(y_c) label(adm2))
Problem with option label(): variable x_c specified in suboption xcoord() not found
r(111);

[Sergiy Radyakin]

See here for an example and page 10 of the manual.
Best, Sergiy Radyakin

[Marcos Almeida]

Hello Danis,

Naturally, you are supposed to use the option "genc()" (please check the help files) whenever transforming the shapefile in dta file, otherwise it would be impossible for you to have what you didn't asked for.

Stata is just reminding you that you didn't yet prepare the dta file in the correct way, with centroids, so as to be fully capable to insert the labels under - spmap -program,. The option xcoord(x_c) and ycoord(y_c) are exactly to find these variables, which were, supposedly, created beforehand.