Re: [DebianGIS] Packaging of World Vector Shoreline (WVS) data
The version shipped with GMT is not exactly set up for easy use with other applications.
Paul Wessel has built a shapefile version of v2.0 of these data, available from:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html
If a standalone global dataset is required, this would be a much more useful proposition than the GMT version.
Brent Wood
--- On Wed, 9/29/10, Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com> wrote:
> From: Hamish <hamish_b@yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [DebianGIS] Packaging of World Vector Shoreline (WVS) data
> To: pkg-grass-general@lists.alioth.debian.org, "Anton Martchukov" <anton@martchukov.com>
> Date: Wednesday, September 29, 2010, 12:37 PM
> Hamish wrote:
> > If I guess correctly, this is the same as the GSHHS
> > dataset? (?)
> > http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhs/index.html
>
>
> ... who are of course GMT-upstream, and so the
> gmt-coast-low
> package is already shipping it.
>
> (btw, the /usr/share/doc/gmt/README.coastlines file
> described
> in the apt-cache show package description for
> gmt-coastline-low
> no longer exists, and I wonder if the server disk space is
> still
> an issue for shipping the gmt-coast-high and
> gmt-coast-full
> packages?)
>
> see also the zyGrib package which also has & ships a
> low-res
> world coastline:
> http://packages.debian.org/zygrib
> [zygrib depends on hurd?!]
>
> again derived from the same NOAA/GMT GSHHS map source:
> http://packages.debian.org/sid/all/zygrib-maps/filelist
>
>
>
> it would be good to reuse gmt's long established coastline
> package for both OpenCPN and zyGrib's needs..
> (and seeing that GMT is upstream for the data it seems
> natural
> to let them keep the name)
>
>
> Hamish
>
>
>
>
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