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Add DCW collections in README.md (#96)
I add a subtitle and a sentence to improve the description of the DCW collections.
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gmt coast -RUS+r2 -Glightgray -B -EUS.TX,US.MS+gred -pdf us
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### DCW Collections
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From versions 2.1.0 and GMT 6.4.0 onwards you can also use named regions (continents, seas, etc) using their names.
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We offer 37 geographic regions based on [Natural Earth](https://www.naturalearthdata.com) at scale 1:110, 104 seas
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named (102 based on [IHO1953](https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/29772/1/IHO1953a.pdf), most of them taken from
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[Fourcy and Lorvelec (2013)](https://www6.rennes.inrae.fr/ese_eng/HRMLOS)) and 57 lakes, islands and archipelagoes.
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You can also use 46 collections of countries; 30 are from [UN49](https://unstats.un.org/unsd/methodology/m49/)
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and the rest were obtained from from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subregion).
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You can see the full list at [dcw-collections.txt](dcw-collections.txt).
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These allow you to make maps matching those regions, such as
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gmt coast -RScandinavia -Glightgray -B -pdf Scandinavia

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