Anybody have grid shapefiles?

[Mark Howard]

Thanks for the help. I'm not a python person. Got an avenue script and
it's done.

-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Perry [mailto:perrygeo at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 22, 2006 12:06 PM
To: MAPSERVER-USERS at lists.umn.edu; Mark Howard
Subject: Re: [UMN_MAPSERVER-USERS] Anybody have grid shapefiles?

On 8/22/06, Dylan Beaudette <dylan.beaudette at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 22 August 2006 13:22, Mark Howard wrote:
> > Does anybody have a half-degree (30 minute) shapefile (world
coverage
> > WGS84 preferred) that they could send me?
>
> You can always make them yourself with GDAL and the python | perl |
etc.
> bindings.
>

Theres a good example of this technique, written in python, at
http://zcologia.com/news/16

Another option would be QGIS which comes with a graticule maker plugin.

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Matt Perry
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