Publishing a Report for North America

The InstantAtlas installation includes example data for users who wish to create a report for North America. We strongly recommend that you follow the instructions and publish the Edinburgh postal sectors report first.

The North American map files are located in the InstantAtlas ‘maps’ folder. The default path to this is:

C:\Program Files\EsriUK\InstantAtlas\maps\

The north_america_admin.shp file contains administrative (state, region) boundaries for the USA and Canada. The north_america_countries.shp file contains national boundaries for these and other North American countries. We recommend that you use north_america_admin.shp as the base geography and north_america_countries.shp as the contextual geography for your report.

You can find an example Excel workbook with matching data in the InstantAtlas ‘workbooks’ folder. The default path to this is:

C:\Program Files\EsriUK\InstantAtlas\workbooks\North_America