[GRASS-dev] coastline for the grass usermap

[Stephan Holl]

Hello Markus,

Markus Neteler <neteler at itc.it>, [20070212 - 18:54:15]

> 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.

OK, I will look fo it. Thanks for the hint.

> 
> >   
> >> 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.

OK.

Best
	Stephan


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