Re: classification problem

Hi Shinn,

You need to do this outside NCL. What you need as input are the lat-lon
co-ordinates of the storm track. You should then feed this data to a program
that can do geocoding (actually reverse geocoding). For example, you could
do this with the Ruby language, after installing a library called GeoKit.
More details can be found at http://geokit.rubyforge.org/ Once you develop
your ruby script, you could integrate with your NCL script by calling the
former using systemfunction command.

p.s: You may find similar helper libraries in other scripting languages as
well
p.s 2: You may also directly use a GeoCoding service, example from Google
which supports reverse GeoCoding
Good Luck,

saji

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:43 PM, shinn wong <shinnshinnwong@gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi all,
> I am writing a script to visualize the storm track. The storm is classified
> into different categories according to different areas it has passed
> through, like the Philippines or Japan. However, how can I get the
> coordinates (lat/lon) information for the outline of the countries? Have
> anyone done this before? Is there any easier way to classify the storm
> track? Thank you.
> Regards,
> Shinn
>
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