McIDAS Programmer's Manual
Version 2006
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OUTL*
Base map files, where * is the map file name.
These variable-length, binary files contain the base map data for drawing graphical map outlines. The map files and their descriptions are provided in the table below.
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Map file
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Description
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OUTLSUPU
|
high resolution USA
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OUTLSUPW
|
world coastal
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OUTLUSAM
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medium resolution USA
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OUTLHPOL
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world political boundaries
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OUTLHRES
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high resolution world coastal outline
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OUTLUSAL
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low resolution USA and North America
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OUTLWRLD
|
world coastal
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Word allocation for OUTLSUPU, OUTLSUPW, OUTLUSAM, OUTLHPOL and OUTLHRES
Words 1 to 6000 contain the directory for the line segments. Each directory block contains six words of information.
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Word
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Description
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0
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number of blocks (line segments)
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1
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minimum latitude, degrees * 10000
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2
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maximum latitude, degrees * 10000
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3
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minimum longitude, degrees * 10000; west is positive
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4
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maximum longitude, degrees * 10000; west is positive
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5
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beginning word of data start for segment 1
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6
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number of words to read
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7 - 12
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directory for line segment 2
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...
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...
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5995 - 6000
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directory for line segment 1000
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6001
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latitude degrees * 10000
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6002
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longitude degrees * 10000
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6003
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latitude degrees * 10000
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6004
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longitude degrees * 10000
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...
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...
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The maximum number of line segments is 1000. The number of points in a segment is limited to 3000 by the arrays in the MAP program.
Word allocation for OUTLUSAL and OUTLWRLD
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Word
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Description
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0 . . . n-1
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n number of
latitude/longitude pairs as halfwords; longitude, degrees * 10, 0 to 360 west
is positive; latitude, degrees * 20,
0 to 180 north is positive; odd number means pen down; even number means pen
up
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n + 1
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end of file marker; HEX FFFF0000
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API functions
Currently, no API library functions exist for reading and writing base map files. There are, however, programs in McIDAS-XRD, MAKEMAP and MAP2TEXT, that convert McIDAS map files to and from a text format.
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