CIA World DataBank II
The CIA World DataBank II which provides high-resolution coastlines, together with national boundaries and rivers.
- Coverage:
- Global
- License:
- Public domain.
- Author:
- ?
The original data are stored in binary files. However, an ASCII version can be downloaded from here.
Derived datasets and tools:
- Worldwide datasets: This can be done via the following commands:
cat Source/*-riv.txt > world-riv.txt
- GMT (with the rank given as a -Z flag, for plotting via psxy -M):
- Dataset: cia_wdbii_world_gmt.zip
- Created using: wdb2gmt.pl
- Remove parts of the dataset with a higher rank (i.e. higher orders of nested elements):
- Dataset: (contained in the Paraview and GMT datasets)
- Created using: gmt_filter_rank.pl
Usage:
./gmt_filter_rank.pl < input.gmt > output.gmt
- Paraview:
- Dataset: cia_wdbii_world_paraview.zip
- Created using: gmt2vtk.pl
Usage:
./gmt2vtk.pl < input.gmt > output.vtk