Comments on: Map of the world in the Spatial Results tab (and converting from Geometry to Geography) https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2008/08/25/map-of-the-world-in-the-spatial-results-tab-and-converting-from-geometry-to-geography/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:45:30 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Michael Swart https://lobsterpot.com.au/blog/2008/08/25/map-of-the-world-in-the-spatial-results-tab-and-converting-from-geometry-to-geography/#comment-622 Tue, 02 Sep 2008 07:45:30 +0000 /blogs/robfarley/archive/2008/08/25/map-of-the-world-in-the-spatial-results-tab-and-converting-from-geometry-to-geography.aspx#comment-622 Canada is not too big. I had similar problems while creating a map of Canada in the geography type but I managed to get through. If my geography data ultimately comes from the same data that you’re using, then the reason that Canada can’t be created (and probably the same goes for UK etc…) is that there’s a loop in the data that I used. A figure eight from a topological point of view.

Try editing the data to take out the offending points. It worked for me:

The following blog entry was written before SQL 2008 RTM so there wasn’t any pretty spatial results to show.
http://dbwhisperer.blogspot.com/2008/07/getting-geography-data-from-visio.html

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