Coastline

General description

GeoDataset name: Coastline

This dataset is prepared from the coastline from the Digital Chart of the World (1:1 mill.), and includes the area north of 60°N and from 0°E eastwards to 150°W.

Technical description

Shapefile name: dcwcoast.shp

Path: <NSR_DATA>\basecart\coast

GeoDataset type: Shapefile with PolyLine features.

Coordinate system: Latitude/longitude in decimal degrees

* Coastline

4445 PolyLines, 4 descriptive fields.

Fields: [<Name>] -- <Alias> (type of field)

[Coast_] -- "Coast_" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Coast_id] -- "Coast_id" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Polntype] -- "Coastline type" (Numeric, no decimals)

[Polnstat] -- "Coastline status" (Numeric, no decimals)