Re: No US state boundaries with high resolution map

Hi Mary,

Sorry. it works. I did not realize that there are three frames... My fault...

Thank you very much.
Jeff

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 8:14 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
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> Jeff,
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> Did you look at all three frames? This example generates three frames: one with high-res coastal outlines, one with state outlines, and the final one with both.
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> If you are not seeing both in the third frame, then please change the output in the gsn_open_wks file to "png" and send me the resultant file (usstates.000003.png). Also, let me know what version of NCL you have.
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> I've attached the third frame that I get when I use NCL V6.1.2. It also works with V5.2.1, V6.0.0 and V6.1.0
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> --Mary
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> On Mar 7, 2013, at 8:47 AM, Jeff wrote:
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> Hi Mary,
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> Thank you for your quick reply.
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> I tried the script you attached but still get high resolution
> coastlines only. I mean, no boundaries between states.
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> I modified the script to add map_us to map_hires and then draw
> map_hires but got same result.
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> Thanks,
> Jeff
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> but still don't get the boundaries between states.
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> On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Mary Haley <haley@ucar.edu> wrote:
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> Hi Jeff,
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>
> The high-res database is a coastal database only, and doesn't include internal boundaries.
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>
> You could create the map twice, once with the high-res coastline, and once
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> with the us states outlined, and then attach one to the other so they
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> become one plot.
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>
> The slight problem with this is you end up with two sets of boundaries
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> in some cases.
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>
> Dave might have some ideas about how to mask the coastal part of the US outlines.
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>
> I've attached a sample script.
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>
> You could also just use shapefiles. I know there are shapefiles that have
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> high-res coastal and internal boundaries.
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>
> See example "shapefiles_8_new.ncl" at:
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> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml
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>
> This shows how to draw outlines for India, but you can use
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> the same information to draw outlines for the U.S.
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>
> The US shapefiles can be downloaded from:
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> http://www.gadm.org/country
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>
> --Mary
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>
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> On Mar 7, 2013, at 9:59 AM, Jeff wrote:
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> Hi,
>
>
> I installed the high resolution coastline files as described in
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> http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Graphics/rangs.shtml
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> The resolution does improve a lot. But this option
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> mpres@mpOutlineBoundarySets = "GeophysicalAndUSStates"
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> does not seem to work any more.
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>
> Just wonder how can I turn on state boundaries when I use high
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> resolution coastlines.
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> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
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