<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Yes, you can use shapefiles to draw the coastal outlines and political boundaries instead of the GrADS default map. Use 'set mpdraw off' and 'draw shp'. Please see the documentation on shapefiles to learn how to control the drawing of shapefiles. <a href="http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/shapefiles.html">http://grads.iges.org/grads/gadoc/shapefiles.html</a><div><div><br></div><div>--Jennifer</div><div><div><br><div><div>On Apr 13, 2011, at 1:27 AM, ugo merlini wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div class="hmmessage" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma; ">Hi,<br><br>is possibile to use multiple shapefiles to built a basemap and make a picture like the one in link (witch use grads default base map)?<br><br><a href="http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m136/ugo73/t5.png">http://i103.photobucket.com/albums/m136/ugo73/t5.png</a><br><br>In particular the shapefiles are administrative boundary, one for lakes, one for rivers and one for cities<br><br><br>Regards<br><br>Ugo<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; font-size: 12px; "><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>jma@cola.iges.org</div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></div> </div><br></div></div></div></body></html>