[GRASS-dev] coastline for the grass usermap

[Markus Neteler]

Stephan Holl wrote on 02/12/2007 02:13 PM:
> Hello Hamish,
>
> Hamish <hamish_nospam at yahoo.com>, [20070213 - 01:56:22]
>
>   
>> I notice the coastline for the GDF Hannover GRASS users' map is quite
>> crude when you zoom in to city scale. The raster backdrop looks great.
>> (I'm not sure who maintains that.)
>>
>> Here is a better worldwide vector coastline, licensed as GPL:
>>   http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhs/version1.5/
>>     
>
> I have maintained this app for some time, but currently
> I have no access to the server anymore so I cannot apply your suggested
> dataset. Do you know a WMS-Server where this data is made available to
> the public? This would reduce the ammount of work which needs to be
> done to preprocess.
>   

Martin Spott is working on this for OSGeo on a telascience.org machine.
The OSGeo Wiki contains details.

>   
>> It would be nice to use it!
>>     
>
> I leave it this to the current maintainers at GDF for decision.
Looks like that I am involved :)
Currently no time, but ping me if nothing happens.

Markus