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Hi,<br>
<br>
I am working on some packages for Debian Meteorology
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Meteorology):">http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Meteorology):</a><br>
magics++ , a plotting / graphics library / scripting system , and
zyGrib, a GRIB (met. format) file viewer.<br>
They both include some coastline maps from "gshhs"
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html">http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html</a>),<br>
the "Global Self-Consistent Heirarchical High-Resolution Shoreline
database. This data is GPL'd,<br>
created by the same people as "gmt".<br>
<br>
zyGrib contains 23M of "low-res" maps, with an additional package of
101 MB optional high-res maps.<br>
magics++ has 21 MB in one file from this set; the files are in their
own .b format. It makes sense to build these<br>
files into their own shared package.<br>
<br>
Now, it appears that these are the same data files in 'gmt' (Generic
Mapping Tools) a lower-res version of the coast files are provided<br>
in netCDF format in gmt-coast-low (5.5 MB worth). There was a
higher-resolution package gmt-coast-high, but this was removed as <br>
it took up too much space in Debian.<br>
<br>
Does anyone know this code? It appears as though the gmt-coast-low is
not sufficient for zyGrib and magics++, <br>
and I'm not familiar with the history of "gmt" beyond the README. Any
ideas or recommendations as to how to proceed?<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
Alastair McKinstry<br>
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