[CS4/JS] Where Am I!? A World Map script

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Here's one I originally wrote for InDesign, but Illustrators may like it as well!
This is a Javascript implementation of a program I had on the hard disc of several consecutive computers, going back to the late '80s. This version was an implementation in C, which in turn was based upon a Pascal program: CARTOG.PAS, accompanying "Mapping the World in Pascal" by Robert Miller and Francis Reddy, BYTE, December 1987, page 329
What does it do? It draws a world map. That's all
Written for CS4 (but it might work other versions). Simply run the script and enter stuff into the dialog -- it ought to do the rest automatically. If you want to see your own location from outer space, go to LATITUDE et LONGITUDE de quelques Villes (which was the first comprehensive listing I found; there are lots of others) and see if your hamlet is listed. You can enter coordinates either as positive/negative values, or follow them with "E" or "W" and "N" or "S". Only decimal notation is supported; minutes & seconds was too much work.
The image is grouped into one and consists of the background circle, all land masses in a group of their own, and optionally the meridians, also grouped. If you ungroup once, you can color and move the land and meridians around. Ungroup again to get ten zillion tiny objects, so you can play Tectonics 1-0-1 and shift the continents around the globe.
Note: the calculations for the larger continents, in particular Asia, sometimes clash with my math. If so, you'll see stray lines and a messed up image ... No cure for that, except trying with slightly different coordinates.
Download Instructions:
Download from my website: http://www.jongware.com/binaries/whereami.zip
The package contains the script, which you can move into your Illustrator Scripts folder to be able to run it from File -> Scripts, and three icons; these you should put in your own Documents folder. Sorry about that -- it seems there is no good way to make sure the script can find the images otherwise! If you forgot that or just don't want to mess up your documents, it'll still work, but with a nagging message "Wot no img!?".

Answer 1

After you got a nice view of the world, you can ungroup, scale, move, and size all elements at will. It may be necessary to use the Pathfinder to combine all loose islets and stuff into one solid object -- otherwise, you might see the dividing line between Europe and Asia. It also gets easier to fill stuff.
This image, inspired on a classic, took me a couple o'minutes of tinkering ... And of course the world is centered on the place where I live