Hello All, I have used that DCW data at PSU before, and one option (at that time) was to download ascii files with the lat/lon point pairs for each of the polygons for each country. The format was fairly easy to read (into SAS). I just looked at the page again but I was unable to download the ascii files. I don't know if this is a 'temporary' bug or a feature. You should also know that the russian data is already projected (Lambert, I believe...). It was LOT cheaper to use that data and make my own swedish map with RT 90 coordinates instead of licensing the data from Swedish Land Survey. Jonathan Jonathan Yuen, Professor in Plant Pathology phone: 46 18 672369 Dept. of Ecology and Crop Production Sciences fax: 46 18 672369 Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences http://www.tvs.slu.se Box 7043 email replies to S 750 07 Uppsala, SWEDEN Jonathan.Yuen at evp.slu.se -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-help-request at stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._