[DebianGIS-dev] Maps within Debian

[Sandro Tosi]

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 22:51, Alastair
McKinstry<alastair.mckinstry at sceal.ie> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am working on some packages for Debian Meteorology
> (http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Meteorology):
> magics++ , a plotting / graphics library / scripting system , and zyGrib, a
> GRIB (met. format) file viewer.
> They both include some coastline maps from "gshhs"
> (http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html),
> the "Global Self-Consistent Heirarchical High-Resolution Shoreline database.
> This data is GPL'd,
> created by the same people as "gmt".

I'm interested in the outcome of this discussion, since I'm
considering packaging basemap[1] matplotlib's toolkit, that contains
gshhs data too.

[1] http://matplotlib.sf.net/basemap/doc/html

So please keep me in the loop :)

Regards,
-- 
Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi