NAME
gshhs2grass - Extracting GSHHS and WDBII data in GRASS-compatible ASCII format
SYNOPSIS
gshhs2grass -i gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].b [ -xminx ] [-Xmaxx ] [ -yminy ] [ -Ymaxy ]
DESCRIPTION
gshhs2grass reads the binary coastline (GSHHS) and and translates it into an ASCII format suitable for import into GRASS. It automatically handles byte-swabbing between different architectures.
- gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].b
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One of the GSHHS binary data file as distributed with the GSHHS data supplement. Any of the 5 standard resolutions (full, high, intermediate, low, crude) can be used. The resulting files are called dig_[ascii|att|cats].gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].
OPTIONS
- -x
-
Specify a minimum (west) longitude.
- -X
-
Specify a maximum (east) longitude.
- -y
-
Specify a minimum (south) latitude.
- -Y
-
Specify a maximum (north) latitude.
EXAMPLES
To convert the full GSHHS data set , try
gshhs2grass gshhs_f.b
BUGS
Not updated to handle the WDBII line data (borders or rivers).
AUTHOR
Original version by Simon Cox ([email protected]) with some maintenance by Paul Wessel ([email protected]).
SEE ALSO
GMT(1), gshhs(1) gshhs_dp(1)