I notice the coastline for the GDF Hannover GRASS users' map is quite
crude when you zoom in to city scale. The raster backdrop looks great.
(I'm not sure who maintains that.)
Here is a better worldwide vector coastline, licensed as GPL:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhs/version1.5/
It would be nice to use it!
Hamish
Hello Hamish,
Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>, [20070213 - 01:56:22]
I notice the coastline for the GDF Hannover GRASS users' map is quite
crude when you zoom in to city scale. The raster backdrop looks great.
(I'm not sure who maintains that.)Here is a better worldwide vector coastline, licensed as GPL:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhs/version1.5/
I have maintained this app for some time, but currently
I have no access to the server anymore so I cannot apply your suggested
dataset. Do you know a WMS-Server where this data is made available to
the public? This would reduce the ammount of work which needs to be
done to preprocess.
It would be nice to use it!
I leave it this to the current maintainers at GDF for decision.
Best
Stephan
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Stephan Holl wrote on 02/12/2007 02:13 PM:
Hello Hamish,
Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>, [20070213 - 01:56:22]
I notice the coastline for the GDF Hannover GRASS users' map is quite
crude when you zoom in to city scale. The raster backdrop looks great.
(I'm not sure who maintains that.)Here is a better worldwide vector coastline, licensed as GPL:
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhs/version1.5/
I have maintained this app for some time, but currently
I have no access to the server anymore so I cannot apply your suggested
dataset. Do you know a WMS-Server where this data is made available to
the public? This would reduce the ammount of work which needs to be
done to preprocess.
Martin Spott is working on this for OSGeo on a telascience.org machine.
The OSGeo Wiki contains details.
It would be nice to use it!
I leave it this to the current maintainers at GDF for decision.
Looks like that I am involved 
Currently no time, but ping me if nothing happens.
Markus
Hello Markus,
Markus Neteler <neteler@itc.it>, [20070212 - 18:54:15]
Stephan Holl wrote on 02/12/2007 02:13 PM:
> Hello Hamish,
>
> Hamish <hamish_nospam@yahoo.com>, [20070213 - 01:56:22]
>
>
>> I notice the coastline for the GDF Hannover GRASS users' map is
>> quite crude when you zoom in to city scale. The raster backdrop
>> looks great. (I'm not sure who maintains that.)
>>
>> Here is a better worldwide vector coastline, licensed as GPL:
>> http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/data/gshhs/version1.5/
>>
>
> I have maintained this app for some time, but currently
> I have no access to the server anymore so I cannot apply your
> suggested dataset. Do you know a WMS-Server where this data is made
> available to the public? This would reduce the ammount of work
> which needs to be done to preprocess.
>Martin Spott is working on this for OSGeo on a telascience.org
machine. The OSGeo Wiki contains details.
OK, I will look fo it. Thanks for the hint.
>
>> It would be nice to use it!
>>
>
> I leave it this to the current maintainers at GDF for decision.
Looks like that I am involved
Currently no time, but ping me if nothing happens.
OK.
Best
Stephan
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Tel: +49 (0)541-33 50 8 32 | Intevation GmbH | AG Osnabrück - HR B 18998
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On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:29:34AM +0100, Stephan Holl wrote:
Markus Neteler <neteler@itc.it>, [20070212 - 18:54:15]
...
> Martin Spott is working on this for OSGeo on a telascience.org
> machine. The OSGeo Wiki contains details.
BTW: here is the link:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Geodata_Repository#PostGIS_serving_vector_data
Markus
Markus Neteler wrote:
> > Martin Spott is working on this for OSGeo on a telascience.org
> > machine. The OSGeo Wiki contains details.BTW: here is the link:
http://wiki.osgeo.org/index.php/Geodata_Repository#PostGIS_serving_vector_data
I added some GSHHS comments to:
including a link to openstreetmap.org's wiki, which claims to link to
some even better landsat+algorithm derived coastline data (PGS, EVS
Islands).
Stephan- as for WMS servers hosting GSHHS data, I don't know, but
a web search for GSHHS+WMS brings back 600+ hits so I recon that
chances on finding one are fairly good.
Hamish
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:55:40PM +1300, Hamish wrote:
...
Stephan- as for WMS servers hosting GSHHS data, I don't know, but
a web search for GSHHS+WMS brings back 600+ hits so I recon that
chances on finding one are fairly good.
Once you have a viable solution to be integrated into our
GRASS map server, I can implement it. But I would appreciate
a sort of receipe to a solution which won't slow down the
server.
Markus