| Re: Political Boundaries [message #27772] |
Thu, 08 November 2001 11:13 |
Liam E. Gumley
Messages: 378
Registered: January 2000
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Kelly Dean wrote:
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> I am using IDL's High/Low Res database to map out some regions in the
> Middle East. I notice some countries are missing.
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> Any reason why? I suspect a bad database.
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> Kelly Dean
> CSU/CIRA
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> ==================================================
> PRO caspian_sea
> DEVICE, decomposed = 0
> LoadCT, 39
> WINDOW, 0, xsize = 400, ysize = 400
> MAP_SET, limit = [20,40,50,60], /grid, /label
> map_continents, /countries, color = 100
> map_continents, /coasts, color = 200
> END
Kelly,
You may want to try the USGS coastline extractor at
http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/coast/
For Coastline Database, select 'WVS and All Political Boundaries'. I can
send you code to plot the default output file format if you are
interested.
Cheers,
Liam.
Practical IDL Programming
http://www.gumley.com/
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