County Boundaries in Grads

[Brandt Maxwell]

Thanks, Mac!  That gave me the county lines.

Later...
Brandt

----- Original Message -----
From: Mac MacLeod <mmacleod at SCOTIAWEATHER.COM>
Date: Monday, October 30, 2006 12:01 pm
Subject: Re: County Boundaries in Grads

> 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)
> >
>