gshhgtograss(1gmt)

gshhgtograss1gmt

Extracting gshhs and wdbii data in grass-compatible ascii format

Usage

gshhgtograss -i gshhs_ [{f | h | i | l | c}] .b [-xminx] [-Xmaxx] [-yminy] [-Ymaxy]

Overview

gshhgtograss reads the binary coastline (GSHHS) or binary river/border (WDBII) and and translates it into an ASCII format suitable for import into GRASS. It automatically handles byte-swabbing between different architectures.

gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].b

One of the GSHHG binary data file as distributed with the GSHHG data supplement. Any of the 5 standard resolutions (full, high, intermediate, low, crude) can be used. The resulting files are called dig_[ascii|att|cats].gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].

Options

-x

Specify a minimum (west) longitude.

-X

Specify a maximum (east) longitude.

-y

Specify a minimum (south) latitude.

-Y

Specify a maximum (north) latitude.

Examples

To convert the full GSHHS data set , try

gshhgtograss gshhs_f.b

Bugs

Not updated to handle the WDBII line data (borders or rivers).

Author

Original version by Simon Cox ([email protected]) with some maintenance by Paul Wessel ([email protected]).

From gmt 4.5.12-1 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.