Drawing coordinates on a map

[Aziz Essouaied]

Hello Stata community, I have this kind of data to work with:

* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input int stopid str21 stopname float(stoplat stoplon)
  1 "Ain Drahem"             36.779 8.68833
  2 " Ain El Karma"         36.1752 8.39293
  3 " Ain Essobeh"          36.9579 8.91899
  4 "Aouana"                37.0302 9.33377
  5 "Babouch"               36.8021 8.67753
  6 " Bareket Essahel"      36.4041   10.56
  7 "Beja"                  36.7266 9.19202
  8 " Ben Aoun"             34.8561 9.14682
  9 "Ben Guerdene"          33.1555 11.2131
 10 "Bir Ali Ben Khelifa"   34.7347 10.0944
 11 "Bir Bouragba"          36.4318 10.5712
 12 "Bir El Hafey"          34.9325 9.19626
 13 "Bir El Mchergua"       36.5159 9.96051
 14 "Bizerte"               37.2695 9.87057
 15 "Borj El Aifa"          36.2186 8.85217
 16 "Bouarada"              36.3511 9.62311
 17 "Bouargoub"             36.5378 10.5472
 18 "Bouficha"               36.299 10.4603
 19 "Bouhajla"              35.3948  10.049
 20 "Boussalem"             36.6097 8.97289
 21 "Bouterfess"            36.9542 8.85778
 22 "Carrefour Haffouz"     35.5961 9.85787
 23 "Carrfour Sebitla"      35.1471 9.36316
 24 "Caserne Bouficha"      36.3279 10.5007
 25 "Dahmani"               35.9463 8.83067
 26 "Dhehiba"               32.0107 10.7001
 27 "Douz"                  33.4579 9.02284
 28 "El Ala"                35.6158 9.56252
 29 "El Batten"             35.7108 10.0007
 30 "El Faouar"             33.3562 8.67671
 31 "el hajeb"              35.3953 9.54222
 32 "El Houareb"            35.5675 9.76938
 33 "El Krib"               36.3256  9.1343
 34 "El Ksour"              35.8963 8.88281
 35 "El Oueslatia"          35.8485 9.59002
 36 "Enfidha"               36.1358 10.3814
 37 "Ennaima"               36.1099 8.60272
 38 "Errhima"               35.4784 9.66112
 39 "Feriana"               34.9475 8.56884
 40 "Fernenah"              36.6566 8.69617
 41 "Fondouk Jedid"         36.6596 10.4547
 42 "Fouchana"              36.6991 10.1696
 43 "Gabes"                 33.8823 10.0862
 44 "Gafsa"                 34.4164 8.78973
 49 "Ghomracen"               33.06 10.3396
 51 "Grombalia"             36.6016 10.4965
 53 "Haffouz"               35.6353 9.67362
 54 "Hajeb El Ayoun"        35.3959 9.54446
 55 "Hammam Lif"            36.7268 10.3372
 56 "Hazoua"                33.7345 7.59004
 57 "JERBA (houmet essouk)" 33.8721 10.8579
 58 "Jefna"                 37.0514 9.47382
 59 "Jelma"                 35.2719 9.41895
 60 "Jendouba"               36.495 8.77573
 61 "Jerissa"               35.8447   8.632
 62 "Jradou"                36.2777 8.44952
 63 "Kairouan"              35.6809 10.0866
 64 "Kalaat Senen"          35.7689 8.34217
 65 "Kasserine"             35.1776 8.84774
 66 "Kebili"                33.7261 8.97982
 67 "Kondar"                35.9352 10.3007
 68 "Koutine"               33.4392 10.3904
 69 "Ksar Lamssa"           36.0331 9.69247
 70 "Le Kef"                36.1629  8.7032
 71 "Lassouda"                 35.1 9.53519
 72 "Mateur"                37.0364 9.66717
 73 "Medenine"              33.3612 10.4694
 74 "Menzel Bourguiba"      37.1558 9.78861
 75 "Mareth"                 33.615 10.2903
 76 "Metbassta"             35.7937 10.1463
 77 "Metlaoui"              34.3159 8.40337
 78 "Midoun"                33.8052 10.9905
 79 "Medjez El Bab"         36.6399 9.61333
 80 "Mhamdia"               36.6738 10.1556
 81 "Nebeur"                36.2948  8.7669
 82 "Nefta"                   33.87 7.88268
 83 "Nefza"                 36.9755 9.08106
 84 "Ouechteta"             36.9616 9.00362
 85 "Oued Eremal"           36.1143 8.62922
 86 "Oued Ezzarka"          36.6645 9.44053
 87 "Oued Mellag"           36.1193 8.47501
 88 "Oum Labouab"            36.169 9.77139
 89 "Pont de Malleg"        36.4066 8.74816
 90 "Sejnene"                37.057 9.23965
 91 "Sakiet Sidi Youssef"   36.2219 8.35467
 92 "Sfax"                  34.7234 10.7578
 93 "Sidi Aouidet"          36.2217 9.74434
 94 "Sidi Bouzid"           35.0436 9.49667
 95 "Sidi Khiar"            36.3546 8.79179
 96 "Siliana"               36.0942 9.36984
 97 "Souk Lahad"            33.7786 8.84698
 98 "Sousse"                35.8141 10.6304
 99 "Tabarka"               36.9556 8.75575
100 "Tajerouine"            35.8915 8.55263
101 "Tamaghza"              34.3837 7.93326
102 "Tamra"                 37.0587  9.1217
103 "Tataouine"             32.9479 10.4572
104 "Teboursouk"            36.4576 9.24982
105 "Testour"               36.5516 9.43805
106 "Thala"                 35.5727 8.67023
end

As you can see, those are some geographical coordinates of points. What I want to do is map those points on the Tunisia map using spmap package and so on. In other words, I want to have a Tunisia map that shows those points on it. I would also prefer to have the Tunisia map with governorate boundries, like, the administrative division by boundries.

Any help please?

[Scott Merryman]

Use the -point()- option within spmap.

[Aziz Essouaied]

Scott Merryman Thanks for the help, that worked. Still, I just had to not to use the labels on those points on the map because, with more than 200 points, it is going to be crowded as a map and it will be hard to even read the names of those bus stops.

Thanks for the help!