[Geodata] GSHHS 1.6 Shapefiles

[Emilio Mayorga]

Birgit,

I like this version (based on GSHHS 1.3) for global-scale work:
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/data/
Under "Data Offerings", get a copy of the document describing the
processing steps to create a global dataset:
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/publications/archive/NelsonTurner2004b.pdf
and the derived shape files are also there:
http://www.geog.leeds.ac.uk/people/a.turner/data/gshhs1.3_dd.zip

I've used this derived dataset extensively.

Cheers,

-Emilio Mayorga
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences
71 Dudley Rd.
New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8521, USA



On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 4:47 AM, Birgit Wessel <birgit.wessel at dlr.de> wrote:
>
>  Hi Martin,
>
>  I am looking for a latest version of GSHHS in closed polygons in shapefile
>  (ESRI).
>  So, how can I read your files? The extension is .b and not .shp, .shx, .dbx,
>  ...
>  Are those really shapefiles or do I need the convertion tool you mention?
>
>  Thanks,
>  Birgit
>
>
>  Martin Spott wrote:
>  >
>  > Ralf Gerlich was so kind to write a little tool that converts a GSHHS
>  > database directly into every format that is supported by 'libogr'. By
>  > default it is writing four Shapefiles. Note, that this release of
>  > Shapefiles contains closed polygons, not linestrings - voila:
>  >
>  >   ftp://ftp.ihg.uni-duisburg.de/GIS/GISData/GSHHS/
>  >
>  > Have fun,
>  >       Martin.
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