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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change 1- The border/coastline data used by basemap can be updated it two ways:
1+ Utilities for Updating Coastline/Border Data
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4+ This folder contains utilities for updating basemap's version of GMT's GSHHS
5+ shoreline, river, and political border dataset.
6+
7+ The coastline, etc data used by basemap can be updated in two ways:
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39A) Download the GSHHS shapefiles and use them
410B) Use GMT if you already have it installed, and avoid the download.
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25313) run dumpbounds.sh to create states, countries, rivers text files.
26324) run readboundaries.py to process into binary files, with metadata in
2733 separate text files.
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35+ Updating Landmask Data
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38+ In most cases, you will not need to update the raster landmasks used by
39+ basemap. However, if GSHHS has had a large number of new islands or lakes
40+ added, you may want to update the landmasks in addition to the vector data.
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42+ You'll need GMT installed to update the landmasks. Once you have it (and the
43+ full-resolution GSHHS data, which is usually a separate package), run
44+ ``update_landmasks.py``.
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