How can I create an hires basemap for Italy having Lat Lon coordinates?

Fri Mar 9 10:46:47 EST 2007

Dear grads users,

I need to create an opoly.asc/lpoly.asc file for Italy.
I have an ASCII file having polygon lat-lon coordinates.
Does anyone know how have I to format the my file?

I opened original file in ASCII format, this is it looks....

232.782 233 49.8577 50 draw polyf 232.806 50 232.782 49.9822 232.791 49.9289
232.818 49.8933 232.853 49.8666 232.907 49.8577 232.969 49.8577 233 49.8622
233 50 232.806 50

Any suggestion is greatly appreciated. Thanks.