gshhstograss1gmt
Extracting gshhs and wdbii data in grass-compatible ascii format
Usage
gshhs2grass -i
gshhs_
[{f | h | i | l | c}]
.b
[-xminx]
[-Xmaxx]
[-yminy]
[-Ymaxy]
Overview
gshhs2grass reads the binary coastline (GSHHS) 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
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One of the GSHHS binary data file as distributed with the GSHHS 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
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-x -
Specify a minimum (west) longitude.
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-X -
Specify a maximum (east) longitude.
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-y -
Specify a minimum (south) latitude.
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-Y -
Specify a maximum (north) latitude.
Examples
To convert the full GSHHS data set , try
gshhs2grass gshhs_f.b
Releases
3 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 2 times.