If you just need the GSHHS data in shapefile format, it's available on the NOAA
GSHHS website <http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html>.
If you prefer a direct link [96MB zip file]:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhs/version2.0/shapefiles/gshhs_shp_2.0.zip
Hope that helps,
-Joe
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 6:34 PM, P. R.M. <romero...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I have a non-matplotlib related project that requires usage of GSHHS
> dataset shapefiles.
> The regular GSHHS dataset doesnt appear to include political boundaries,
> however the GSHHS dataset used by matplotlib/basemap does include
> country/border data. I'd like to extract matplotlib/basemap GSHHS country
> data & convert it to shapefile format.
>
> specifically, the following files that are included with
> matplotlib/basemap:
> countries_c.dat
> countries_f.dat
> countries_h.dat
> countries_i.dat
> countries_l.dat
> countriesmeta_c.dat
> countriesmeta_f.dat
> countriesmeta_h.dat
> countriesmeta_i.dat
> countriesmeta_l.dat
>
> how can I convert these files to shapefile format, or where can I get
> shapefiles that already include this data & that are based on the GSHHS
> coastline data?
>
> please help,
> thanks,
> P.Romero
>
>
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