[idvusers] Is an update of world country outlines available?

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Subject: [idvusers] Is an update of world country outlines available?
From: Heiko Klein <Heiko.Klein@xxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:29:48 +0200

I've been checking some altitude maps over Europe and got a bit confusedby using the default IDV (2.7u1) 'world country outlines'. It seems likeIceland (lower left corner) is about 2 degrees more west than thealtitude, while Svalbard/Spitsbergen (upper right corner on the attachedfigure) has only 5% of its actual size.

The same map looks okay with the World Coastlines, which is of lowerresolution.

I recognized, too, that the country borders don't reflect the split ofserbia and montenegro in 2006.

Does somebody have other country border or higher resolution worldcoastline files available? Did somebody convert i.e. the recentlyupdated NCL / Ncar graphics database 'Earth..4' to an idv-readable file?


Best regards,

Heiko

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