Thank you Liz for having a look at this.
Yes, I thought maybe it was a projection issue, however, I haven’t had any luck adding those shapefiles to a number of different projections, maybe which all are different.
For the example I provided, I was just looking at the world NOx file that is provided as example data with VERDI2.0-beta, VERDI_2.0_beta/data/model/world_NOX_latlon.ncf Seems like it is just a rectilinear lat/lon projection.
I can also successfully add the ne_10m_rivers_lake_centerlines as you did for your example to the rectilinear lat/lon NOx world map, but I did not download this and it was already packaged with the VERDI2.0-beta distribution.
However, as before, when trying to add the shapefile I download from that website, Physical Label Area” polygon shapefiles, then I get the erroneous GIS layer data in the tile plot.
I also tested both the above shapefiles with the CMAQ east_Ozone model output packaged with VERDI2.0-beta, VERDI_2.0_beta/data/model/cmaq.cdc.east_Ozone_20060703-1.nc, which is of course a Lambert-Conformal, curvilinear projection, and I get the same results as above, i.e., OK when adding the “Rivers_Lakes_Centerlines” shapefile, but erroneous when adding the downloaded "Physical Label Area” polygon shapefiles:
You can see how I leave open the manage GIS layers GUI window in the snapshots to show the GIS layers I have been adding the in above examples.
Thanks again for your help with this,
Patrick