hi
great job on the administrative units. however, some of the province borders in VietNam are a bit out of date (we now have 64 instead of 61 provinces). the province borders keep on shifting every 5 years or so, so good luck with keeping the information up to date!

Hello, it is very helpful for me.
In the meantime, is it a possible to apply country by country ?
And how can I make this as like you made ?

Yes. See my other posts in this forum.
I make many posts for countries.

Is it possible to change images/blurcountries.png so that you can apply your own colour codes to the countries?

You can use
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/289717
or
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/315825
or
http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php/Cat/0/Number/42988
and set need color.

Thanks for the info!

This is almost what I was looking for. I would like to use a low transparency to have major landmarks shine through. However, setting the transparency to 1 gives me a black polygon instead an almost transparent one. Where did I go wrong?

Is there any chance to edit the blurcountries.png you used as an overlay? I could simply replace the colours and transparency works fine with the overlay.

You can edit raster image in editor (Photoshop etc).
It is not very fast. Need select by color and fill.

I used ArcGIS and KMLer and generated raster (png) from vector.

But where do I find blurcountries.png on my system?

You can save and unzip need KMZ and see *.png file.
KMZ it is zip archive of KML+images

That was the information I was looking for. Thanks a lot for your help!