| > I'm trying to overlay a map of the United States onto a gridded contoured
| > two dimensional representation of my data concentrations and I only want to
| > keep those gridded data which are within the state boundaries.  I've tried
| > using the mapping module, and it doesn't work.  Any help would be
| > appreciated.

If each state is represented as a closed polyline, then I think the
following would do what you want:

  Turn closed polyline for state into FLE data (see documentation).

  Take your_data_grid, and rename "data" to "data_real".

  Then Map(input = your_data_grid, map = state_fle_data).

The resulting your_data_grid will have valid positions only inside the
state FLE boundary.  This gives you the data points that were inside the
state boundary.

Mike

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