hi, I am trying to get a good world map in Pd where I have separated countries. My initial idea was to be able to switch between a flat and a spherical view... that was probably too ambitious. First I wanted to work with the shapes of the countries, leaving the rest of the map black (for alpha blending), but that gave me some limitations when zooming in. Now I am reading into svg formats and how google earth handles location data and country borders (with kml files) and I wonder how I can display any vector graphics format in pd. at the moment I am converting from adobe illustrator to blender to wavefront obj. Is there an easier way to do that? I read that there are opengl libraries like cairo that can handle svg and draw them in opengl. otoh, with wavefront objects I have the problem that the countries are all flat and not bent to the sphere, so I wonder if that is solvable at all? I would rather stay with a flat map if I get moveable and resizable country shapes... thnx for hints! marius.