[Xastir] What about the Great Lakes?

[Jack Twilley]

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>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Russo <russo at bogoflux.losalamos.nm.us> writes:

Tom> I'd be willing to look at it in my copious spare time, too.  But
Tom> I don't know what "other sources" would give me the "states"
Tom> maps.  I bet that with dbfawk they could be made to display any
Tom> way you wanted.

[... moments later, in Internet time ...]

Tom> OK, using the world file as listed in README.MAPS and the states
Tom> file from National Atlas, the great lakes seem to exist only as
Tom> void space outside the shapefiles themselves, so there's nothing
Tom> there to represent lakes to fill with blue.  You could always set
Tom> your background to blue instead of grey...

My background is blue.  I've turned off the world map because the
coastlines are noticeably imprecise, and now the United States floats
alone, as if Mexico and Canada had done their best Atlantis
impressions.  However, the Great Lakes are still grey.

Tom> Have you thought about downloading the "Streams and Waterbodies"
Tom> shapefile from National Atlas?  That would at least have area
Tom> features for the lakes and then some.  With dbfawk you could
Tom> select only the water features you actually cared about and fill
Tom> them with blue, without displaying every single stream and river
Tom> in the country.  (I think --- the file is huge and it's still
Tom> downloading, so I haven't played with it yet)

Mmm.  I'll look into that shapefile next.

Jack.
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