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The polygons in a Grads-generated shapefile conform to the ESRI specifications (<a href="https://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf">https://www.esri.com/library/whitepapers/pdfs/shapefile.pdf</a>) but have an additional constraint so that
GrADS will render them properly: no rings, a.k.a. polygons within other polygons, a.k.a. “donuts". For this reason, the filled contours are are sliced up into odd-looking polygons that you can see clearly if you draw them individually, or with an outline color
that does not match the fill color. There is nothing to be done about that on the GrADS side. There are probably some GIS tools that will merge polygons, but if you want a smooth-looking and outlined filled contour plot, write out the polygons and line contours
into two separate shapefiles and overlay them. —Jennifer
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<div>On Jan 18, 2016, at 2:08 PM, Michael Mase <<a href="mailto:masester@gmail.com">masester@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div style="white-space:pre-wrap">Exporting shapefiles works fantastic when using lines. However, when you export using polygons, you get very broken and disconnected shapes</div>
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Does anyone have any advice on writing/exporting solid shapefiles that have joined multi-polygons (for each contour region; each temperature interval, for example)?<br>
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It would be nice if each polygon layer represented each interval on the map and was nicely joined and closed properly.
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<div style="font-size: 12px; orphans: 2; widows: 2;">Jennifer M. Adams<br>
Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)<br>
111 Research Hall, Mail Stop 2B3<br>
George Mason University<br>
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Fairfax, VA 22030 <br>
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