<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Soumik,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I don't think we have a way to draw the disputed boundaries. I suggest that you find a shapefile that has these boundaries, and then you can use gsn_add_shapefile_polylines to draw them.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">See example shapefiles_8.ncl at:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml#ex8">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/shapefiles.shtml#ex8</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">This shows you how to draw shapefile outlines of India using shapefiles downloaded from <a href="http://gadm.org">gadm.org</a>. I'm not sure these contain the disputed areas you want, but you should try googling for that. </div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I googled "disputed areas in India shapefile" and found the following link:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/50m-admin-0-breakaway-disputed-areas/">http://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/50m-cultural-vectors/50m-admin-0-breakaway-disputed-areas/</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">I didn't follow the link, but hopefully you can download a shapefile, and use shapefiles_8.ncl to help you draw it.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">As for your second question, see the polyg_9.ncl example at:</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/polyg.shtml#ex9">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/polyg.shtml#ex9</a><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">This shows how to do these divisions via an ASCII file (which may be similar to yours), or a shapefile.</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default">--Mary</div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail_default"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 2:17 PM, Soumik Basu <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sbasu@alaska.edu" target="_blank">sbasu@alaska.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hello NCL users,<br><br></div>I plotted a figure using NCL with Indian state boundaries for a journal publication. The reviewers want me to draw the whole state of Kashmir i.e. including the disputed parts. It is a criminal offense in India to show wrong map of the country. <br><br>So, my question is how do I include the disputed parts? Is there any way to do it in ncl? <br><br></div>I am attaching the map that I have. They want this: <br><br><a href="http://www.indmaps.com/images/india.gif" target="_blank">http://www.indmaps.com/images/<wbr>india.gif</a><br clear="all"><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>My second question is how can I draw the meteorological sub-divisions of India over contour plot in NCL using coordinates from an ascii file. The ascii file containing the coordinates was prepared for grads I think. <br><br></div><div>Thanks,<br></div><div>Soumik<br></div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>-- </div><div>"Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning." - Albert Einstein</div><div><br></div><div>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>********</div><div>Dr. Soumik Basu</div><div>Post Doctoral Fellow, International Arctic Research Center, UAF, Fairbanks, AK, USA</div><div>Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Nanjing, China</div><div>PhD in Atmospheric Sciences</div><div>M.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences</div><div>Email: <a href="mailto:suvro05@gmail.com" target="_blank">suvro05@gmail.com</a></div><div>website: <a href="http://soumikbasu.weebly.com/" target="_blank">http://soumikbasu.weebly.com/</a></div><div><br></div><div>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>******************************<wbr>*********</div></div></div></div>
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