<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">GrADS 2.0.a8 has the capability to draw shapefiles, with an interface similar (but not identical) to Arlindo's opengrads. The documentation is at <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/shapefiles.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/shapefiles.html</a>. If you have India state boundary data in shapefile format, there is no need to write any new code. If you have boundary data in ascii format, it is probably easier to try to write out a shapefile than a GrADS map file. <div>--Jennifer<br><div><br><div><div>On Apr 8, 2010, at 1:32 PM, Matei Georgescu wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I had the same question, but for a different geographical area (Brazil). The solution was to obtain 'opengrads' and ESRI First Level World Administrative Boundaries 1998.<br><br>Please see here for some additional info:<br><a href="http://opengrads.org/doc/udxt/shape/shape.html">http://opengrads.org/doc/udxt/shape/shape.html</a><br><br>hope this helps,<br>matt<br><br>-----<br>Matei ("Matt") Georgescu<br>Post-doctoral Scholar<br>Program on Food Security and the Environment<br>Stanford University<br>Y2E2 Bldg - MC4205<br>473 Via Ortega<br>Stanford, CA 94305<br>homepage - http://stanford.edu/~mateig<br><br>On Thu, 8 Apr 2010, ramanathan natarajan wrote:<br><br><blockquote type="cite">dear sir,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">i have to draw india map with state boundaries with high resolution. under mpdset, hires data set is given in<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">grads without state boundaries. does it possible to get data set file for this or shall i write my own mpdset<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">data file? if so , kindly tell me how to develope the data file. for your information i know fortran as well as<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">c programming language.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">ramanathan,<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">pune, india<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"></blockquote>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br>gradsusr@gradsusr.org<br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div></span> </div><br></div></div></body></html>