County Boundaries in Grads

[Mac MacLeod]

Hi Brandt.

Have a look here:  ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/usgs/README

If you go to ftp://grads.iges.org/grads/usgs/ then you see the various
r?.dat files.   In structions on using them are in the GrADS manual under:

set mpdset hires r1.dat ...r12.dat  etc


Good luck

Sincerely

Mac

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Brandt Maxwell" <Brandt.Maxwell at NOAA.GOV>
To: <GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2006 4:44 AM
Subject: County Boundaries in Grads


> Greetings...
>
> I'm a new user of the Grads software, and I would like to know if
> there is an easy way to display (U.S.) county boundaries in the map
> background.  So far, I have mostly just gone through the Grads
> tutorial, and I'm hoping this can be solved with the mpdset command
> (like for state boundaries).  If the county boundaries aren't a part
> of the Grads package, then would I need to load in some external file
> containing counties (like a shape file--or at least a file containing
> lat/lons of the boundary points)?
>
> Thanks for any help you can provide...
>
> Brandt Maxwell
> National Weather Service
> San Diego, California (USA)
>