<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Note I changed the subject to reflect the true content of this thread.&nbsp;</div><div><br></div>I now realize what the problem is. The links to the ascii files in <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/basemap.html">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/basemap.html</a> were all pointing to the same file (the lowres land polygons). I have updated the links, so please re-download all the ascii files and it should work properly.&nbsp;<div>--Jennifer<br><div><br><div><div>On Nov 12, 2013, at 10:48 AM, Eniola Olaniyan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Dear Jennifer<br><br>I am grateful for your swift response.<br><br>* Set the polygon data files<br>path='/home/eniola/hrm_training/grads_scripts/' <br><br></div>That is the path to my ascii files including all my scripts<br>
<br></div>Eniola<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:36 PM, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank">jma@cola.iges.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">You probably have the same ascii file set up for both the L and O options. Check your copy of the <a href="http://basemap.gs/" target="_blank">basemap.gs</a> script where it has the comment "Set the polygon data files".&nbsp;<div>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--Jennifer</font></span><div><div class="h5"><br><div><br><div><div>On Nov 12, 2013, at 6:10 AM, Eniola Olaniyan wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>
<div><div><div>Dear Jennifer <br><br></div>Thank you for the assistance but what i could do is just to mask the land. Even with the <br><br></div>basemap O command is still the land that is being masked<br>

&nbsp; <br></div>is there something am doing wrong again<br><br></div>Please let me know<br><br></div>Eniola<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 10:11 PM, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank">jma@cola.iges.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">You probably have to update your copy of <a href="http://basemap.gs/" target="_blank">basemap.gs</a> with the full path to the ascii files.&nbsp;<div>

<span><font color="#888888">--Jennifer</font></span><div>p.s. I recently wrote a doc page for basemap: <a href="http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/basemap.html" target="_blank">http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/basemap.html</a></div>

<div><div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 8, 2013, at 4:03 PM, Eniola Olaniyan wrote:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>dear Jennifer <br><br></div>I am having Error reading lpoly_lowres.asc when I tried to run basemap script to <br>

<br></div>mask the ocean and for only the plot on the land to be displayed<br><br>
</div><div>I am using grads-2.0.2 on linux Ubuntu12.04<br></div><div><br></div>Please I need help<br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:53 PM, Jennifer Adams <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org" target="_blank">jma@cola.iges.org</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>


<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">You must be in batch mode, which does not open a display window. Did you use -b when you invoked GrADS ?&nbsp;<div>


--Jennifer<br><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>On Nov 8, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Mayes, Fred wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><span style="border-collapse:separate;font-family:Helvetica;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:-webkit-auto;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;font-size:medium"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US">


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