[gradsusr] question about political and state boundaries

[Cathy Smith]

Hi all

We had a user notice that the European boundaries we use for our 
composite maps were out-of-date. We were using 'mres' from GrADS and we 
switched to 'newmap' (don't see this documented on the GrADs help 
pages). The US state boundaries don't draw with newmap so we have to use 
mres. We also use hires for some maps. I notice the hires draws many 
lakes and we don't want that. Even the mres draws some lakes.

What map boundaries should we use for Europe if we want country 
boundaries? For the US including states? We would like simpler 
boundaries (that is not too many lakes/rivers) but we do want them 
up-to-date and not including non existent or changed countries.

Thanks for any insight.

Cathy Smith

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