[GRASSLIST:8610] Re: gshhs

[Markus Neteler]

On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 03:16:59PM +1300, Hamish wrote:
> > > I have not been able to find v.in.gshhs in grass6.0 and do not seem
> > > to be able find any reference to this as an upcoming plan for
> > > grass6.0.  I used this before in grass5.0 and grass5.1 with no
> > > trouble and need this now for grass6.0.
> > >
> > > I have tried to import the gshhs shp file but I get an error when 
> > > trying to display a zoomed in level on this file (and have
> > > previously reported this error to the list with no response).
> > >
> > > Anyone know if this is/will be available for grass6.0?  Or if there
> > > is a specific reason it was left out?
> 
> in general see the Module Porting List on the wiki, but for v.in.gshhs
> it has no answer. (unported so far)
> 
> http://grass.gdf-hannover.de/twiki/bin/view/GRASS/ModulePortingList

A volunteer is needed to update v.in.gshhs to GRASS 6.


> > > Alternately, does anyone know of an alternate data set for this
> > > then?

I recently converted the new GSHHS through GRASS5+GRASS 6 to
SHAPE. Takes a while but works.

Markus