I am hoping to put some sample code on my web site soon to demonstrate
how to program the iTools.
In preparation for that, I am putting some useful low-level routines
and data files on my downloads page
http://idl.tamu.edu/Downloads.html
At the bottom of the page you will find "Land-ocean masks" and
"Topography and bathymetry data". These zip files contain some
publicly-available data sets and simple IDL functions to read
the data files, along with example programs that demonstrate
their use.
Cheers, Ken Bowman