NAME¶
gshhs2grass - Extracting GSHHS and WDBII data in GRASS-compatible ASCII format
SYNOPSIS¶
gshhs2grass -i gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].b [
-xminx ]
[
-X maxx ] [
-yminy ] [
-Ymaxy ]
DESCRIPTION¶
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
- 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¶
- -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
gshhs2grass gshhs_f.b
BUGS¶
Not updated to handle the WDBII line data (borders or rivers).
AUTHOR¶
Original version by Simon Cox (simon@ned.dem.csiro.au) with some maintenance by
Paul Wessel (pwessel@hawaii.edu).
SEE ALSO¶
GMT(1),
gshhs(1) gshhs_dp(1)