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+ The border/coastline data used by basemap can be updated it 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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+ The preferred method is to use the GSHHS shapefiles.
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+ Option A - GSHHS Shapefiles
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+ 1) Download the shapefile formatted versions of GSHHS and extract them in the
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+ "utils" directory. The data is available at:
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+ https://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/
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+ (Last updated with: ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/gshhg/gshhg-shp-2.3.5-1.zip)
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+ 2) Run readboundaries_shp.py.
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+ Option B - Generic Mapping Tools
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1) Install GMT. Note that you may need to install a separate gmt-suplemental
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package to get "gmt gshhg" on some systems.
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2) Download gshhg native binary-formatted data from
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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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- 5) run plotgrdlandmask.py to verify results.
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