[gradsusr] How to draw state boundary in a country?

[Yaqiang Wang]

Look at this web page: http://www.iges.org/grads/gadoc/shapefiles.html

On Monday, April 22, 2013, Mohsen Soltani wrote:

> Dear Dr. Wang,
>
> Thank you very much for providing the Iranian states boundaries to me. I
> really appreciate it. It seems that you used MeteoInfo software to draw the
> internal boundaries of Iran. It’s quite good, and I sometimes use this
> powerful software in my researches.
>
> But now, you know, I would like to draw the Iranian states by Grads! As
> far as I know, I need the data to be in NetCDF, nc. formats, in order to
> produce such a map in Grads.
>
> Have you any suggestion?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mohsen
>
> --
> some are weather-wise some are otherwise!
> --
> Best Wishes,
> (Mr.) Mohsen Soltani
> Climatology Grad Student (M.Sc.),
> Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
> Tel: (+98) 9119772934
> e-mail: soltani.clima at gmail.com <javascript:_e({}, 'cvml',
> 'soltani.clima at gmail.com');>
>
>
> On Sun, Apr 21, 2013 at 1:50 AM, Yaqiang Wang <yaqiang.wang at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> I can not visit diva-gis website now, but the amdin 1 (states, provinces)
> shape files can be dowloaded from Nature Earth website. The data include
> the states or provinces of all countries in the world. I extract the data
> of Iran from it and attached in this email.
>
>
> On Sunday, April 21, 2013, Yaqiang Wang wrote:
>
> You can try the following websites:
>
> http://www.naturalearthdata.com/
>
> http://www.diva-gis.org/Data
>
>
> On Sunday, April 21, 2013, Mohsen Soltani wrote:
>
> Jeff,
>
> Thank you for your suggestion. I have used this function, but
> it doesn't work! - as you said, it's because of the lack of Iranian state
> boundaries.
>
> Do you know any website(s), where I can get such shapefile for Iranian
> state boundaries?
>
> Thanks,
> Mohsen
>
> --
> some are weather-wise some are otherwise!
> --
> Best Wishes,
> (Mr.) Mohsen Soltani
> Climatology Grad Student (M.Sc.),
> Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
> Tel: (+98) 9119772934
> e-mail: soltani.clima at gmail.com
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:20 AM, Jeff Duda <jeffduda319 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> try 'set mpdset hires', then display your data.  If that doesn't work,
> you'll need a shapefile that contains Iranian state boundaries.
>
> Jeff Duda
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 1:13 PM, Mohsen Soltani <soltani.clima at gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> How can I draw state/province boundary of a country e.g. for Iran?  I
> would like to add internal boundaries for Iranian states/provinces, how can
> I do that? Is it possible, at all?
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Mohsen
> --
> some are weather-wise some are otherwise!
> --
> Best Wishes,
> (Mr.) Mohsen Soltani
> Climatology Grad Student (M.Sc.),
> Faculty of Geography, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran
> Tel: (+98) 9119772934
> e-mail: soltani.clima at gmail.com
>
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