Package: gnudatalanguage
Severity: wishlist
Dear All,
Since a few releases GNU Data Language (GDL) supports mapping data with
shorelines using the datafiles from the GSHHG package
(http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/).
The upcoming release of GDL brings improvements in this regard and it
would be great to offer these functionalities to Debian and downstream
users. Therefore, I'm kindly asking for creating two packages (both do
not require compilation):
- gshhg-gshhs-bindata: at least all *.b files from gshhg-bin-2.3.1.zip
- gshhg-gshhs-bindata-dev: at least gshhs.h file from gshhs_1.13_src.zip
both files available from: ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg
AFAIU, GSHHG is an umbrella name, GSHHS is the shoreline part of GSHHG.
The shorelines are available in different formats, binary being one of
them. Debian already offers GSHHS shorelines in GMT packages but in CDF
format. GSHHS name is older than GSHHG and GSHHS seem to google better -
that's why the suggestion to keep it in the package name.
The header file suggested for the -dev package contains definition of
the binary data format for the current release of GSHHS. This would be a
build dependency for GDL. The *.b files are needed for GDL at runtime.
The GSHHS is licensed under GPL, see:
ftp://ftp.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/README.TXT
Thanks, best regards,
Sylwester
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