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Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... [message #41249 is a reply to message #41124]

Tue, 05 October 2004 04:22

Chris Lee
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Registered: August 2003

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In article <MPG.1bcae23d7ca75d06989694@news.frii.com>, "David Fanning"
<david@dfanning.com> wrote:

> David Fanning writes:
>
>> I've seen it done (I think) with a world countries
>> shapefile, although I couldn't tell you where to find it.
> It appears to me IDL 6.1 ships with a continents shapefile in the
> IDL_DIR/resource/maps/shape directory. Maybe you could search for
> "continents.shp" in the iTools code and see if you can find out how RSI
> reads and uses it there. Cheers,
> David
>
(IDL <= 6.0 doesn't appear to have the continents.shp file)

There are shapefile formatted world map data at

http://aprsworld.net/gisdata/world/

IDl has a Shapefile object. How you go from shapefile to continent
outline is ....a problem for the student. The IDL examples in IDLffShape
do work sometimes (hint: /UPDATE is wrong if the file is read only)

Chris.

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		Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: george on Thu, 30 September 2004 10:45
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: Rick Towler on Wed, 13 October 2004 16:55
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: Chris Lee on Tue, 05 October 2004 04:22
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: AJ on Tue, 05 October 2004 08:19
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: andrew.cool on Tue, 19 October 2004 15:22
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 04 October 2004 16:51
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: Rick Towler on Tue, 05 October 2004 17:17
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: Paul Selby on Mon, 04 October 2004 13:41
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: Mark Hadfield on Mon, 04 October 2004 13:35
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: Rick Towler on Mon, 04 October 2004 12:50
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: Randall Skelton on Mon, 04 October 2004 12:15
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: Rick Towler on Mon, 04 October 2004 10:40
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 October 2004 04:30
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: David Fanning on Mon, 04 October 2004 04:26
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: Randall Skelton on Sat, 02 October 2004 10:42
		Re: Plotting 'continents' in object graphics... By: AJ on Mon, 25 October 2004 03:40

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