> Situation:
> 
> 	1. Have 2 ASCII data files.  x, y, and z coordinates.
> 	2. One file contains nearshore data and the other
> 	    contains offshore data.
> 	
> Goal:
> 
> 	1. Combine data to make a raster map of combined data.
> 
> Have tried:
> 
> 	1.  s.in.ascii and s.surf.tps under no tension
> 	    When nearshore and offshore is done seperately,
> 	    the contours come out looking good.
> 
> 	2.  Tried combining and the offshore plays havic on
> 	    the onshore.

Can you do the two maps separately, and use a mask layer based on
the shoreline to zero out the parts of each map that don't count,
then simply add the two maps together?  I am assuming "nearshore"
means on "land", and that the discontinuity is the actual shoreline.

Tim.

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  Tim Martin                       *      Reluctant to find he's 
  Spatial Information Systems      *      stuck in the nineties
  University of Alberta            *      again.
  martin@ulysses.sis.ualberta.ca   *              - Moxy Fruvous
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