Perl Monks,

I have looked high and far for a Perl Module that will generate a map of the world that allows me to highlight various countries. This is a little different than "place a marker at Lat/Long" in that ideally it would be a module where I could say something like: 

     &initialize;
     &color_country("US","red");
     &color_country("DE","green");
     &color_country("GB","blue");
     &output_map("some filename");

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and a JPEG/GIF would be generated that is a map of the world with the United States in red, Germany in green, and Great Britian in blue. My guess is something like this would be built on top of GD (which I've used), but despite a buncha searching, I just can't seem to find it.

Thanx, alek

UPDATE: I've looked at the 3 replies (thanx guys) so far and continued Googl'ing/searching, but have yet to find anything that will generate 2-D maps of the world, with the countries outlined ... with some sort of ability to solid fill color by country. If I come across this, I'll circle back here and let folks know.

In reply to Perl Module to output world maps with countries highlighted by alek

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