Hi all
I was just wondering what the format of the plPlot map files is? The maps
included in plPlot are rather low resolution so wondered if it was possible for
me to download more detailed ones form somewhere?
Phil--
At 03:53 AM 13/09/2012 -0700, you wrote:
Hi all
I was just wondering what the format of the plPlot map files is? The maps
included in plPlot are rather low resolution so wondered if it was
possible for me to download more detailed ones form somewhere?
Phil
It was the CIA World DataBank map
Unfortunately after a significant amount of searching i've only been able to
find ascii versions of the CIA maps (which were on the page you suggested
Andrew). The maps with plPlot are binary so these don't work.
If anyone has copies of more detailed maps then I'd appreciate it if you'd let
Hi again
I've just been through the source code to work out the file format. It actually
turned out to be rather simple - just a series of segments made up of 2 byte
numbers. Each starts with the number of points in the segment followed by the
lons then the lats for that segment. I've
