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Re: map_set coastline data [message #33567 is a reply to message #33489]

Wed, 08 January 2003 12:56

Mark Hadfield
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"paul wisehart" <wisehart@runbox.com> wrote in message
news:slrnb1omah.3qf.wisehart@stingray.mcst.ssai.biz...
> How do I get at the data that map_set uses
> to plot coastline/continents?
>
> I can find the actual files on my machine, I
> just don't know how to open them.

I have a couple of routines to read these files and can send them to you if
you want.

But, as Rick comments, there are better sources of coastline data. These
days I use GSHHS:

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html

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Mark Hadfield "Ka puwaha te tai nei, Hoea tatou"
m.hadfield@niwa.co.nz
National Institute for Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA)

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		map_set coastline data By: paul wisehart on Wed, 08 January 2003 09:01
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