In the Displaying Overlays on a Map section of the iOS Developer Library Location Awareness Programming Guide, there is an example that "shows a filled and stroked overlay covering the state of Colorado."
// Define an overlay that covers Colorado.
CLLocationCoordinate2D points[4];
points[0] = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(41.000512, -109.050116);
points[1] = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(41.002371, -102.052066);
points[2] = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(36.993076, -102.041981);
points[3] = CLLocationCoordinate2DMake(36.99892, -109.045267);
MKPolygon* poly = [MKPolygon polygonWithCoordinates:points count:4];
poly.title = @"Colorado";
[map addOverlay:poly];
Question Is there a source of coordinate data for all 50 U.S. states using this same latitude/longitude data readily and freely available?
Ran a Google search for us state outline geo coordinates and found stackoverflow question Geographical boundaries of states/provinces -> Google Maps Polygon, which has an answer linking to XML for US state polygons (Colorado data below).
<state name="Colorado" colour="#880000">
<point lat="37.0004" lng="-109.0448"/>
<point lat="36.9949" lng="-102.0424"/>
<point lat="41.0006" lng="-102.0534"/>
<point lat="40.9996" lng="-109.0489"/>
<point lat="37.0004" lng="-109.0448"/>
</state>
I also found US State and Country border coordinates with a link to NationalAtlas.com, First Level Administrative Boundaries (States), United States, 2005, but that data looks much more precise than I need.
Another source of data was The State Border Data Set which linked to a file with "geographic coordinates of the line segments that make up the state borders" (Colorado data below).
bordindx, st1st2, milemark, lat, long, st1, st2,
19 ,CO-NE ,0 ,40.003 ,102.051 ,08 ,31 ,
19 ,CO-NE ,68.95 ,41.002 ,102.051 ,08 ,31 ,
19 ,CO-NE ,173.19 ,41.001 ,104.053 ,08 ,31 ,
20 ,CO-NM ,0 ,36.999 ,109.044 ,08 ,35 ,
20 ,CO-NM ,333 ,37 ,103.001 ,08 ,35 ,
21 ,CO-OK ,0 ,37 ,103.001 ,08 ,40 ,
21 ,CO-OK ,52.89 ,36.993 ,102.041 ,08 ,40 ,
22 ,CO-UT ,0 ,41 ,109.049 ,08 ,49 ,
22 ,CO-UT ,276.11 ,36.999 ,109.044 ,08 ,49 ,
23 ,CO-WY ,0 ,41.001 ,104.053 ,08 ,56 ,
23 ,CO-WY ,260.18 ,41 ,109.049 ,08 ,56 ,
Update: I put an refined version of the states.xml, as well as Objective-C code on a kjhsoftware/us-state-polygons github repo.
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