DCW. Get list of states within a country?

Esteban82 · September 10, 2021, 4:51pm

A can get a list of countries within a continent with

gmt coast -E=SA+l

Is there any way to get the same with a country and its states?

Something like gmt coast -Ecountry+L?

PlanetGus · September 10, 2021, 6:10pm

Something like a gmt version of

grep "US" /usr/local/Cellar/gmt/HEAD-c796a90_1/share/gmt/dcw/dcw-states.txt

?

Esteban82 · September 12, 2021, 9:24pm

For the record. Now fix in master version.

Esteban82 · September 12, 2021, 9:33pm

Another question.
If a run gmt coast -E=SA+gred+p -png mapa -Baf I get a map of South America with the boundaries of its countries (from the DCW dataset).

How can I get the same for the countries which have states data (i.e. the country with the states boundaries from the DCW dataset)? Is is possible?

PlanetGus · September 13, 2021, 4:41pm

Like coast -N ?

Esteban82 · September 13, 2021, 5:18pm

I think -N uses the GSHHG dataset. I want to use the DCW dataset. In the previous map will only show the boundaries of the states of Brazil and Argentina.

pwessel · September 13, 2021, 6:40pm

The problem is that DCW are polygons and you do not want to draw that outline as “political boundary” as you end up painting coastlines as well.

Esteban82 · September 13, 2021, 6:50pm

I am ok with coastlines (as in the case of SA map).