[gradsusr] custom shapefiles with shaded plots

Yaqiang Wang yaqiang.wang at gmail.com
Sun Nov 28 20:20:32 EST 2010


I can't see your linked figure. I am thinking maybe your shapefile is
not polyline but polygon. If that is the point, you can convert your
polygon shapefile to polyline shapefile using a GIS software. or you
can convert the shapefile to GrADS map format using MeteoInfo.

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:49 AM, Joralf Quist <J.Quist at meteovista.nl> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>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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