Installation¶
Pycoast depends on pyshp and PIL.
Install pycoast and dependencies.
Download the zipped GSHHS and WDBII Shapefiles from SOEST. Unzip the files to a data directory (hereafter called GSHHS_DATA_ROOT). The structure of GSHHS_DATA_ROOT should now be:
.
├── GSHHS_shp
│ ├── c
│ ├── f
│ ├── h
│ ├── i
│ └── l
└── WDBII_shp
├── c
├── f
├── h
├── i
└── l
Where each dir on the lowest level contains Shapefiles like GSHHS_shp/c/GSHHS_c_L1.shp