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English: Location map of the Indian Ocean.
  • Projection: Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection.
  • Area of interest:
  • N: 30.0° N
  • S: -70.0° N
  • W: 30.0° E
  • E: 150.0° E
  • Projection center:
  • NS: -20.0° N
  • WE: 90.0° E
  • GMT projection: -JA90.0/-20.0/180/19.998266666666666c
  • GMT region: -R-12.856058461183775/-43.848273739920856/151.50519408595028/33.22162400070504r
  • Land and shoreline: 1:110m Natural Earth Datasets, borders 1:50m
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Author Tentotwo

Shell script for generating the map using GMT archive copy at the Wayback Machine

#!/bin/sh  # Set common options PROJECTION=A90.0/-20.0/180/19.998266666666666c REGION=-12.856058461183775/-43.848273739920856/151.50519408595028/33.22162400070504r FILENAME=Indian_Ocean_laea_location_map.ps  # Get Natural Earth datafiles echo "Downloading datafiles from naturalearthdata.com" wget -nv -nc \  http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/physical/110m-coastline.zip\  http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/physical/110m-land.zip\  http://www.naturalearthdata.com/http//www.naturalearthdata.com/download/110m/cultural/110m-admin-0-boundary-lines.zip echo "...done\n"  echo "Inflating archives" unzip 110m\*.zip echo "...done\n"  echo "Converting shapefiles to GMT" ogr2ogr -F GMT 110m_land.gmt 110m_land.shp ogr2ogr -F GMT 110m_coastline.gmt 110m_coastline.shp ogr2ogr -F GMT 50m_borders.gmt ne_50m_admin_0_boundary_lines_land.shp echo "...done\n"  echo "Creating maps" GMT psxy -m -J$PROJECTION -R$REGION --PAGE_COLOR=198/236/255  --POLAR_CAP=none --PAPER_MEDIA=A3  --BASEMAP_TYPE=plain --BASEMAP_AXES=NESW --FRAME_PEN=0.15p,black 110m_land.gmt -K -G254/254/233 > $FILENAME GMT psxy -m -J$PROJECTION -R$REGION 110m_coastline.gmt -O -K -W0.535p,9/120/171  >> $FILENAME GMT psxy -m -J$PROJECTION -R$REGION 50m_borders.gmt -O -W100/100/100  >> $FILENAME echo "...done\n"  echo "You can now open $FILENAME in Inkscape to clean up the file and save it as SVG. You should add an ocean coloured background and simplify the graticules using CTRL+L."  gv $FILENAME

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