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PSCOAST(l) | PSCOAST(l) |
NAME¶
pscoast - To plot land-masses, water-masses, coastlines, borders, and riversSYNOPSIS¶
pscoast -Jparameters -Rwest/east/south/north[r] [ -Amin_area[min_level [ -Eazimuth/elevation ] [ -Gfill ] [ -Iriver [/pen] ] [ -K ] [ -L[f][x]lon0/lat0/slat/length [m|n|k] ] [ -M[flag] ] [ -Nborder[/pen] ] [ -O ] [ -P ] [ -Q ] [ -Sfill ] [ -U[/dx/dy/][ label] ] [ -V ] [ -Wpen ] [ -X x-shift ] [ -Yy-shift ] [ -ccopies ] [ -bo[s][ n] ]DESCRIPTION¶
pscoast plots grayshaded, colored, or textured land-masses [or water-masses] on maps and [optionally] draws coastlines, rivers, and political boundaries. Alternatively, it can (1) issue clip paths that will contain all land or all water areas, or (2) dump the data to an ASCII table. The datafiles come in 5 different resolutions: ( f)ull, (h)igh, (i)ntermediate, ( l)ow, and (c)rude. The full resolution files amount to more than 55 Mb of data and provide great detail; for maps of larger geographical extent it is more economical to use one of the other resolutions. If the user selects to paint the land-areas and does not specify fill of water-areas then the latter will be transparent (i.e., earlier graphics drawn in those areas will not be overwritten). Likewise, if the water-areas are painted and no land fill is set then the land-areas will be transparent. The PostScript code is written to standard output.No space between the option flag and the associated arguments. Use upper case for the option flags and lower case for modifiers.
- -J
- Selects the map projection. Scale is UNIT/degree, 1:xxxxx, or width in
UNIT (upper case modifier). UNIT is cm, inch, or m, depending on the
MEASURE_UNIT setting in .gmtdefaults, but this can be overridden on the
command line by appending the c, i, or m to the scale/width value.
- -R
- west, east, south, and north specify the Region of interest. To specify boundaries in degrees and minutes [and seconds], use the dd:mm[:ss] format. Append r if lower left and upper right map coordinates are given instead of wesn.
OPTIONS¶
- -A
- Features with an area smaller than min_area in km^2 or of hierarchical level that is lower than min_level or higher than max_level will not be plotted [Default is 0/0/4 (all features)]. See DATABASE INFORMATION below for more details.
- -B
- Sets map boundary tickmark intervals. See psbasemap for details.
- -C
- Set the shade (0-255), color (r/g/b), or pattern (p|Pdpi/pattern; see -G) for lakes [Default is the fill chosen for "wet" areas ( -S)].
- -D
- Selects the resolution of the data set to use ((f)ull, (h)igh, ( i)ntermediate, (l)ow, and (c)rude). The resolution drops off by 80% between data sets. [Default is l].
- -E
- Sets the viewpoint's azimuth and elevation (for perspective view) [180/90]'
- -G
- Select painting or clipping of "dry" areas. Append a shade, color, pattern, or c for clipping. Specify the shade (0-255) or color (r/g/b, each in 0-255).
- -I
- Draw rivers. Specify the type of rivers and [optionally] append pen
attributes [Default pen: width = 1, color = 0/0/0, texture = solid].
Choose from the list of river types below. Repeat option -I as
often as necessary.
1 = Permanent major rivers
2 = Additional major rivers
3 = Additional rivers
4 = Minor rivers
5 = Intermittent rivers - major
6 = Intermittent rivers - additional
7 = Intermittent rivers - minor
8 = Major canals
9 = Minor canals
10 = Irrigation canals
a = All rivers and canals (1-10)
r = All permanent rivers (1-4)
i = All intermittent rivers (5-7)
c = All canals (8-10)
- -K
- More PostScript code will be appended later [Default terminates the plot system].
- -L
- Draws a simple map scale centered on lon0/lat0. Use -Lx to specify x/y position instead. Scale is calculated at latitude slat, length is in km [miles if m is appended; nautical miles if n is appended]. Use -Lf to get a "fancy" scale [Default is plain].
- -M
- Dumps a single multisegment ASCII (or binary, see -bo) file to standard output. No plotting occurs. Specify any combination of -W, -I, -N. Optionally, you may append the flag character that is written at the start of each segment header ['>'].
- -N
- Draw political boundaries. Specify the type of boundary and [optionally]
append pen attributes [Default pen: width = 1, color = 0/0/0, texture =
solid]. Choose from the list of boundaries below. Repeat option -N
as often as necessary.
1 = National boundaries
2 = State boundaries within the Americas
3 = Marine boundaries
a = All boundaries (1-3)
- -bo
- Selects binary output. Append s for single precision [Default is double].
- -P
- Selects Portrait plotting mode [GMT Default is Landscape, see gmtdefaults to change this].
- -Q
- Mark end of existing clip path. No projection information is needed.
- -S
- Select painting or clipping of "wet" areas. Append the shade (0-255), color (r/g/b), pattern (see -G), or c for clipping.
- -U
- Draw Unix System time stamp on plot. User may specify where the lower left corner of the stamp should fall on the page relative to lower left corner of plot. Optionally, append a label, or c (which will plot the command string.). The GMT parameters UNIX_TIME and UNIX_TIME_POS can affect the appearance; see the gmtdefaults man page for details.
- -V
- Selects verbose mode, which will send progress reports to stderr [Default runs "silently"].
- -W
- Draw coastlines. [Default is no coastlines]. Append pen attributes [Defaults: width = 1, color = 0/0/0, texture = solid].
- -X -Y
- Shift origin of plot by (x-shift,y-shift). Prepend a for absolute coordinates; the default ( r) will reset plot origin.
- -c
- Specifies the number of plot copies. [Default is 1]
- -bo
- Selects binary output. Append s for single precision [Default is double].
EXAMPLES¶
To plot a green Africa with white outline on blue background, with permanent major rivers in thick blue pen, additional major rivers in thin blue pen, and national borders as dashed lines on a Mercator map at scale 0.1 inch/degree, tryDATABASE INFORMATION¶
The coastline database is compiled from two sources: World Vector Shorelines (WVS) and CIA World Data Bank II (WDBII). In particular, all level-1 polygons (ocean-land boundary) are derived from the more accurate WVS while all higher level polygons (level 2-4, representing land/lake, lake/island-in-lake, and island-in-lake/lake-in-island-in-lake boundaries) are taken from WDBII. Much processing has taken place to convert WVS and WDBII data into usable form for GMT: assembling closed polygons from line segments, checking for duplicates, and correcting for crossings between polygons. The area of each polygon has been determined so that the user may choose not to draw features smaller than a minimum area (see -A); one may also limit the highest hierarchical level of polygons to be included (4 is the maximum). The 4 lower-resolution databases were derived from the full resolution database using the Douglas-Peucker line-simplification algorithm. The classification of rivers and borders follow that of the WDBII. See the GMT Cookbook and Technical Reference Appendix K for further details.BUGS¶
The options to fill ( -C -G -S) may not always work if the Azimuthal equidistant projection is chosen ( -Je|E). If the antipole of the projection is in the oceans it will most likely work. If not, try to avoid using projection center coordinates that are even multiples of the coastline bin size (1, 2, 5, 10, and 20 degrees for f, h, i, l, c, respectively). This projection is not supported for clipping.SEE ALSO¶
gmtdefaults(1gmt), gmt(1gmt), grdlandmask(1gmt), psbasemap(1gmt)1 Jan 2004 |