World Coastlines and Lakes

This is a coarse coastline dataset, intended for maps with a resolution of 1:5000000 or coarser. One version can be downloaded from Prof. Peter Bird's website: http://peterbird.name/oldFTP/neotec/SHELLS/WorldMap.dig.txt.

Coverage:

Global.

License:

unknown, probably public domain

Author:

unknown

Here are converted versions:

• Paraview: World_Coastlines_and_Lakes.vtp (Tool for conversion: dig2vtk.sh)
• GMT: World_Coastlines_and_Lakes.gmt
  Tool for conversion:

  perl -F, -aple '$_ = (($.-1) ? "" : ">\n") . (/^\*\*\*/ ? ">" : join "\t", map { 0 + $_ } @F[0..1]);'