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)