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Re: Which Hi-Res Coastline Map does IDL Use? Other good maps? [message #7923]

Fri, 24 January 1997 00:00

sterner
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grunes@news.nrl.navy.mil (Mitchell R Grunes) writes:

> Are there any even better (higher resolution, more accurate, etc.)
> FREE hi-res world coastline map databases available?

Check out http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html,
GSHHS - A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution
Shoreline Database. It's very good.

Ray Sterner sterner@tesla.jhuapl.edu
The Johns Hopkins University North latitude 39.16 degrees.
Applied Physics Laboratory West longitude 76.90 degrees.
Laurel, MD 20723-6099
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