Better hires maps

[Yongsheng Chen]

There is a list of available geospatial data from Matlab website:
http://www.mathworks.com/support/tech-notes/2100/2101.html

Yongsheng Chen
MMM/NCAR

On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:35 AM, Arlindo da Silva <dasilva at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 8:28 AM, Piotr Djaków <pdjakow at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello
>> How can i get better hires map for GrADS? There is no many country
>> borders in eastern Europe in default hires map.
>
> One way is to get shapefiles for your region and use the shapefile extension
> in v1.9.0-rc1:
>
>           http://opengrads.org/doc/udxt/shape/
>
> BTW, has anybody out there identified a nice collection of free shapefiles?
> A recipe on the use of shapefiles would be really nice. Nothing fancy, just
> basic usage and references to good shapefiles. Free shapefiles are better,
> but it would be nice to know about moderately priced ones as well.
>
>                http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/
>
>    Arlindo
>
>
> --
> Arlindo da Silva
> dasilva at alum.mit.edu
>