gshhstograss(1)

1GSHHS2GRASS(1)               Generic Mapping Tools              GSHHS2GRASS(1)
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NAME

6       gshhs2grass - Extracting GSHHS and WDBII data in GRASS-compatible ASCII
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SYNOPSIS

10       gshhs2grass -i gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].b [ -x minx ] [-X maxx ] [ -y miny ] [
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DESCRIPTION

14       gshhs2grass  reads  the  binary coastline (GSHHS) and and translates it
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16       handles byte-swabbing between different architectures.
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18       gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].b
19              One  of the GSHHS binary data file as distributed with the GSHHS
20              data supplement.  Any of the 5 standard resolutions (full, high,
21              intermediate,  low, crude) can be used.  The resulting files are
22              called dig_[ascii|att|cats].gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].
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OPTIONS

25       -x     Specify a minimum (west) longitude.
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27       -X     Specify a maximum (east) longitude.
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29       -y     Specify a minimum (south) latitude.
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31       -Y     Specify a maximum (north) latitude.
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EXAMPLES

34       To convert the full GSHHS data set , try
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36       gshhs2grass gshhs_f.b
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BUGS

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

42       Original version by Simon Cox (simon@ned.dem.csiro.au) with some  main‐
43       tenance by Paul Wessel (pwessel@hawaii.edu).
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