hi,
thanks for the response.
I already have & know how to use the GSHHS coastline data; what I need is
political boundaries (country borders) data that will coincide with the GSHHS
coastline data. In other words, I can't simply use any political boundaries
shapefile, since the coastlines will not line up with the various resolutions
of the GSHHS coastline data. I hope this makes it a little more clear...
So, I'd like to source the country border data from matplotlib/basemap's GSHHS
dataset, and convert it to shapefile format.
can anyone please provide some guidance on how to achieve this?
thanks again,
P.Romero
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 19:43:34 -0500
From: jking...@wisc.edu
Subject: Re: [Matplotlib-users] extract country borders data & convert to
shapefile
To: romero...@hotmail.com
CC: matplotlib-users@lists.sourceforge.net
If you just need the GSHHS data in shapefile format, it's available on the NOAA
GSHHS website.
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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