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File Date Author Commit
 README 2007-11-10 jswhit [r4206] updated instructions
 dumpbounds.sh 2007-11-10 jswhit [r4203] add utilities for processing GMT boundaries
 readboundaries.py 2007-11-10 jswhit [r4205] fix typo

Read Me

1) install GMT, download gshhs boundary data and source code
from ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhs/.
2) compile gshhs.c, use to create gshhs_{c,l,i,h}.txt files.
3) run dumpbounds.sh to create states, countries, rivers text files.
4) run readboundaries.py to process into binary files, with metadata in
separate text files.