NAME

       gshhgtograss - Extracting GSHHS and WDBII data in GRASS-compatible ASCII format

SYNOPSIS

       gshhgtograss -i gshhs_[f|h|i|l|c].b [ -xminx ] [-Xmaxx ] [ -yminy ] [ -Ymaxy ]

DESCRIPTION

       gshhgtograss  reads  the  binary  coastline (GSHHS) or binary river/border (WDBII) 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  GSHHG binary data file as distributed with the GSHHG 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

       gshhgtograss 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), gshhg(1) gshhg_dp(1)