[gradsusr] question about political and state boundaries

[Jennifer M Adams]

When GrADS map files are inadequate, I use shapefiles. Top hit for a google search on ‘political boundary shapefile’ was http://www.gadm.org/, which may have what you need, but other options seemed just as promising. 
—Jennifer


> On Sep 25, 2017, at 11:44 AM, Cathy Smith <cathy.smith at noaa.gov> wrote:
> 
> 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 composite maps were out-of-date.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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Jennifer Miletta Adams
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)
George Mason University