Thanks Jeff. Some of my time steps didn't have data, but I wanted to draw a map with latitude and longitude lines. "draw map" only produces a map but not latitude or longitude lines, so my images wouldn't be consistent for looping. I used ended up using different data and plotting it using "set gxout shaded" and "set ccolor 1" (white background map) as suggested by Jeff Duda. I suspect "set gxout grfill" would work also. I used a data set that was a constant number so there were no other colors required. This solved the problem and provided maps with lat/lon lines.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Jeff Duda <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeffduda319@gmail.com" target="_blank">jeffduda319@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Tom,<div>Try defining a new field that has valid data. The time it is valid is irrelevant, but make sure it covers the same area as the data you are plotting. When a time comes that the data you are plotting are gone but that you still want to create a map, plot that created field instead, but make sure all colors are set to the background color (#0), and use gxout shaded. See if that doesn't work.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Jeff Duda<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Aug 1, 2012 at 7:20 PM, Thomas Robinson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ter@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">ter@hawaii.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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Aloha GrADS Users, <br><br>I have a few time steps in my data that have no data but I still want to produce a map for those times. When there is data, a map is drawn with a border an latitude and longitude lines. If there is no data and i use the command 'draw map' only the land map is drawn but there are no latitude and longitude lines, nor is there a border. I am wondering if there is a way to draw the latitude, longitude and border lines in so that when I have no data, the map is exactly the same as when there is data. <br>
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