---------- Forwarded message ----------<br><div class="gmail_quote">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Graziano Giuliani</b> <<a href="mailto:graziano.giuliani@poste.it">graziano.giuliani@poste.it</a>><br>Date: Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:01 PM<br>
Subject: Re: Shapefile question<br>To: Arlindo da Silva <<a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a>><br><br><br>Seems my lamma account is not able to post on gradsusr... will check<br>
with cineca the reason for this. Can You please post the following in<br>
ML, or make an answer to Mark on GRADSUSR?<br>
<br>
Hi Mark,<br>
gshhs shapefile contains same data as in the binary file, so we have<br>
mostly arcs and not so much polygons.<br>
To fill a shape, it must be closed.<br>
<div class="Ih2E3d">ESRI data are much more quality checked and with lot of useful geometric<br>
characteristic, but they are non-free (being the same very diffused).<br>
<br>
</div>Does anybody here know about a source of global public GIS data in a<br>
format supported by gdal?<br>
<br>
Graziano.<br>
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</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Arlindo da Silva<br><a href="mailto:dasilva@alum.mit.edu">dasilva@alum.mit.edu</a>