Re: Longitude, latitude maps

• To: S Santos <s.santos@xxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: Longitude, latitude maps
• From: Bill Hibbard <billh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 07:45:22 -0500 (CDT)

On Wed, 18 May 2005, S Santos wrote:

>  I'm working on geographical graphs and I would like to create graphs
>  where a variable is shown as RGB for a rectangle defined by logitude
>  and latitude. Over that graph I would like to show the world map for
>  the region. I have seen some examples at Visad source using
>  visad.jmet.GRIBCoordinateSystem. The question is if is there any
>  file with all the world map so I can select a region and put it over
>  my graph using this class?

  ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/visad/OUTLSUPW

is a low-detail world map in a file format that VisAD
can read. I'm sure there are better world maps in
Shape files.

Good luck,
Bill

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