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Update readme to mention landmasks
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The border/coastline data used by basemap can be updated it two ways:
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Utilities for Updating Coastline/Border Data
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This folder contains utilities for updating basemap's version of GMT's GSHHS
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shoreline, river, and political border dataset.
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The coastline, etc data used by basemap can be updated in two ways:
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A) Download the GSHHS shapefiles and use them
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B) Use GMT if you already have it installed, and avoid the download.
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3) run dumpbounds.sh to create states, countries, rivers text files.
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4) run readboundaries.py to process into binary files, with metadata in
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separate text files.
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Updating Landmask Data
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In most cases, you will not need to update the raster landmasks used by
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basemap. However, if GSHHS has had a large number of new islands or lakes
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added, you may want to update the landmasks in addition to the vector data.
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You'll need GMT installed to update the landmasks. Once you have it (and the
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full-resolution GSHHS data, which is usually a separate package), run
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``update_landmasks.py``.

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