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Re: County boundaries in direct graphics [message #51154]

Wed, 08 November 2006 14:05

K. Bowman
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Registered: May 2000

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In article <MPG.1fbbff9e5b6da5e7989dac@news.frii.com>,
David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> wrote:

> Kenneth Bowman writes:
>
>> Thanks, David. If the student has in problems, I'll refer him to you. ;-)
>
> Oh, oh. Not another homework assignment!! :-(

Nope, not my student. :-)

Ken

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Re: County boundaries in direct graphics [message #51157 is a reply to message #51154]

Wed, 08 November 2006 13:52

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Kenneth Bowman writes:

> Thanks, David. If the student has in problems, I'll refer him to you. ;-)

Oh, oh. Not another homework assignment!! :-(

Cheers,

David
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Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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Re: County boundaries in direct graphics [message #51159 is a reply to message #51157]

Wed, 08 November 2006 12:43

K. Bowman
Messages: 330
Registered: May 2000

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In article <MPG.1fbbd0a233a3e756989dab@news.frii.com>,
David Fanning <news@dfanning.com> wrote:

> Kenneth Bowman writes:
>
>> Does anyone have a U.S. county boundary data set that can be used to draw
>> counties on a map after calling MAP_SET?
>
> http://www.dfanning.com/map_tips/shapefile.html
>
> Cheers,
>
> David

Thanks, David. If the student has in problems, I'll refer him to you. ;-)

Ken

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Re: County boundaries in direct graphics [message #51164 is a reply to message #51159]

Wed, 08 November 2006 10:32

David Fanning
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Registered: August 2001

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Kenneth Bowman writes:

> Does anyone have a U.S. county boundary data set that can be used to draw
> counties on a map after calling MAP_SET?

http://www.dfanning.com/map_tips/shapefile.html

Cheers,

David
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Fanning Software Consulting, Inc.
Coyote's Guide to IDL Programming: http://www.dfanning.com/
Sepore ma de ni thui. ("Perhaps thou speakest truth.")

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Re: County boundaries in direct graphics [message #51342 is a reply to message #51154]

Fri, 17 November 2006 10:55

bjelley
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Registered: November 2006

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On Nov 8, 4:05 pm, Kenneth Bowman <k-bow...@null.tamu.edu> wrote:
> In article <MPG.1fbbff9e5b6da5e7989...@news.frii.com>,
> David Fanning <n...@dfanning.com> wrote:
>
>> Kenneth Bowman writes:
>
>>> Thanks, David. If the student has in problems, I'll refer him to you. ;-)
>
>> Oh, oh. Not another homework assignment!! :-(Nope, not my student. :-)
>
> Ken

Hey. I'm one of Ken's former students. His homework assignments started
me on my path of using IDL daily. I needed this discussion and David's
suggestions to get counties behind plots of Katrina's surge, dropsonde
trajectories, and base reflectivity derived downbursts. Many thanks to
you both.

-Ben

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