I've found websites like <a href="http://www.mapcruzin.com/">http://www.mapcruzin.com/</a> to be helpful for finding shapefiles. Your best bet is to search the web- there's plenty of free data out there.<br><br>The National Weather Service GIS page used to have some great basic political boundary files, but it appears they have been removed: <a href="http://www.nws.noaa.gov/gis/shapepage.htm">http://www.nws.noaa.gov/gis/shapepage.htm</a><br>
<br>-Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 7:17 PM, Yaqiang Wang <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:yaqiang.wang@gmail.com">yaqiang.wang@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
You can try to find shape files of the updated political boundaries<br>
online. The shape files are supported in new version GrADS.<br>
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On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 12:22 AM, <<a href="mailto:Pascal.ACHIM@cea.fr">Pascal.ACHIM@cea.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
> Hello,<br>
><br>
> I am looking for up to date « political country borders » files for Grads.<br>
><br>
> It seems that current the political boundaries of « lowres » and « hires »<br>
> files provided with Grads are quite old and not up to date<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Does someone could help me?<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Thank’s<br>
><br>
><br>
><br>
> Pascal<br>
><br>
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