-....... this may not get you the maps you need,,,, but will give you
an accurate list of "municipios" in each "estado"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico
-- In
BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com, "Brendan"
<pit.hokie@a...> wrote:
> BP folks,
>
> Don't meant to cross lists here, but a guy from another list I am
on is
> requesting information that some of you might be able to help him
with. I'm
> curious myself if anyone can answer his question. If you can help,
please
> reply to the list and cc: him on the response: adamnvillani@y...
>
> Thanks!
>
> Brendan Sherry
> Monroeville, PA USA
>
> _____
>
> From: adamnvillani [mailto:adamnvillani@y...]
> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2005 5:49 AM
> To: roadgeek@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [roadgeek] Online maps of Mexican Municipios?
>
>
>
> In an attempt to spread my county-counting efforts into Mexico, I've
> encountered some difficulty finding good maps of where the borders
of
> the municipios (county-equivalents) are in Mexico. The best
> information I've been able to find online are these generalized
> location maps of the municipios within the three states I've
visited:
>
> http://antares.inegi.gob.mx/cgi-bin/map3.3/mapserv?
map=/home/web/htdocs/map/
> estados/bc/bc.map
> http://antares.inegi.gob.mx/cgi-bin/map3.3/mapserv?
map=/home/web/htdocs/map/
> estados/son/son.map
> http://antares.inegi.gob.mx/cgi-bin/map3.3/mapserv?
map=/home/web/htdocs/map/
> estados/chih/chih.map
>
> But the detail on these maps is really low, and I haven't even been
> able to figure out how to go up a level to navigate around the
> selection of maps of the different states; instead I've been typing
in
> the state abbreviation in the appropriate spot of the URL.
>
> Has anybody found any maps, online or in print, that show more
detail
> than just these general outline maps?
>
> Incidentally, it's interesting to note that Baja California is
divided
> into just 5 municipios, compared with many more for most of the
other
> states. Ensenada municipio covers everything down to the BCS border.
> In fact, I've visited all five of BC's municipios without hardly
> trying. In Sonora and Chihuahua, I've only got one each (San Luis
Rio
> Colorado and Janos, respectively).
>
> Adam