Re: plot only California state and counties

Hi Adam,

Thanks, and you're right there was a formatting issue in the way I
listed the counties! Dang it! Sorry to be a bother.

Nice to know NCL will take care of that for me next release.

Jeff
On Sep 21, 2006, at 6:02 PM, Adam Phillips wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
>
> I just tried the following:
>
> res = True
> res_at_mpMinLatF = 30.
> res_at_mpMaxLatF = 43.
> res_at_mpMinLonF = 235.
> res_at_mpMaxLonF = 246.
> res_at_mpFillOn= False
> ca_counties = (/"El Dorado","Del Norte"/)
> res_at_mpDataSetName = "Earth..2"
> res_at_mpDataBaseVersion = "Ncarg4_1"
> res_at_mpOutlineBoundarySets = "NoBoundaries"
> res_at_mpOutlineSpecifiers = "California . "+ca_counties
> plot = gsn_csm_map_ce(wks,res)
>
> and it works for me. I'm sure you have, but I would check your list
> again and make sure there are no misspellings or anything.
>
> Just so you know, in the next version of NCL (due to be released
> next week I believe), instead of listing every county, you can just
> say:
>
> res_at_mpOutlineSpecifiers = "California . counties"
>
> and all the California counties are drawn. This also goes for
> "Canada . provinces" and "Mexico . states"
>
> Anyway, let us know if you continue to have problems...
> Adam
>
> Jeff Van Dorn wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I'm just trying to plot some data inside California, but I don't
>> want Nevada or other surrounding states to show up in the plot.
>> I can do that via:
>> res_at_mpOutlineOn = True
>> res_at_mpPerimOn = True
>> res_at_mpOutlineBoundarySets = "NoBoundaries"
>> res_at_mpDataBaseVersion = "mediumres"
>> res_at_mpOutlineSpecifiers = "California"
>> plot = gsn_csm_contour_map_ce(wks,data,res)
>> and that works just fine. However, I'd also like to have
>> California's counties outlined as well. I was trying to do as
>> this examples does:
>> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/maponly_10.ncl (as
>> it only draws counties for FL)
>> So, I've tried:
>> ca_counties = (/"list all 58 counties here"/)
>> res_at_mpDataSetName = "Earth..2"
>> res_at_mpOutlineBoundarySets = "NoBoundaries"
>> res_at_mpOutlineSpecifiers = "California . " + ca_counties
>> plot = gsn_csm_contour_map_ce(wks,data,res)
>> But using that approach doesn't quite work as there isn't a
>> completely closed outline of CA (notably around Lake Tahoe and
>> the upper northwest corner, see attached, those areas are Del
>> Norte and El Dorado counties, which are in my list of counties).
>> Those areas are fine with I only plot the state by itself.
>> So, I'm certainly doing something wrong and I'm hoping that
>> someone can point out to me what that is.
>> Thanks for any suggestions,
>> Jeff
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