[postgis-users] Looking for world coastline data

[Norman Vine]

Michael O'Sullivan writes:
> 
> I am looking at implementing an "AtSea" query in my application - hence 
> I am looking for a basic set of world coastline data.  I imagine a set 
> of polygons.  I have found a few commercial datasets which include a lot 
> of other data which I am not interested in. Does anyone have any 
> pointers to a free (or commercial) set of world coastline data?

http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/wessel/gshhs/gshhs.html

Beware there are a few duplicate points in this data set that 
will need to beculled

This is a different packaging of the same
http://www.io-warnemuende.de/homepages/rfeistel/

Norman