Plotting Country Capitals on Raphael World Map

After making some D3 examples I wanted to take a look at Raphael. If you are interested in comparing D3.js to Raphael.js, there are some good posts about this on Quora and StackOverflow, but I wanted to just create a simple example of drawing a world map and visualizing all the county capitals. When I looked at the Raphael World Map example, I also realized that I could use their JavaScript function to build a nice geographic coordinate converter which is often useful when plotting geo coords that contain degrees, minutes, and seconds. So, let’s get started.
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