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Wed, 29 June 2011 12:46

Brian McNoldy
Messages: 35
Registered: July 2000

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I realize this has been tossed around for at least 15 years on this
list, but I'm wondering if any progress has been made or if anyone has
a workaround. There are numerous instances where the maps that ship
with IDL are quite inadequate... for example, if you try to fill the
land with a color, you'll get most areas correct, but some bigger
obvious places like Long Island, Trinidad, Grand Bahama Island,
Kyushu, and the like are missed by the fill, and for routines that use
such a technique to create a land/sea mask, this is definitely not
good.

Other improvements on this topic would be updating political
boundaries, including state-drawing options for at least Mexico and
Canada, and allowing something like a map_ocean,/fill,color=blue.

Cheers,
Brian

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