[gradsusr] custom shapefiles with shaded plots

Joralf Quist J.Quist at meteovista.nl
Sun Nov 28 19:49:51 EST 2010


But then my value boxes get overwritten by the shapefile. For example see:

http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/7048/capei.png


>Yaqiang Wang yaqiang.wang at gmail.com
>Sun Nov 28 19:20:39 EST 2010
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>Shapefile was standardized by ESRI but GrADS,  so I think your
>shapefiles should have same standard as the shapefiles with GrADS.
>Maybe you could try to draw shaded plot firstly, and then draw
>shapefile plot.
>
>On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Joralf Quist <J.Quist at meteovista.nl> wrote:
>> Dear all,
>>
>> I finally managed to get hold on some good shapefiles for The Netherlands, but I ran into a different problem.
>>
>> When plotting the shapefile first (with shp_lines) and the shaded plot afterwards, the shapefile dissappears. The backgroundcolor really is 0, if I use the Grads shapefile it works perfectly. With contourplot it's not a big issue, cause it only overrides the borders on certain places. I'm still using
>> v2.0.a5.oga.5, so it could be that it has to do something with that (can't update right now due to rightproblems at University).
>>
>> So my question is: How do I use a custom shapefile in the same way the standard Grads shapefile works (ie. it will display the borders behind a shaded plot as wel).
>>
>> Once again thanks for all the suggestions. Your help has been very useful to me!
>>
>> Yours,
>>
>> Joralf Quist
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