New Ferret FAQ on coastline overlays

[Ansley Manke <ansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello,
Thanks to Patrick Brockmann, we've recently learned of a resource for
obtaining detailed coastline data at the USGS's Coastline extractor
page:
http://crusty.er.usgs.gov/coast/getcoast.html 
These are in a convenient form to
download and overlay on Ferret plots.  There's an FAQ on this 
in the Ferret
web pages:
http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/FAQ/graphics/coastlines.html

The Coastline Extractor page also makes river locations and political boundaries
available, though it turns out that the political boundaries are not up to date.  The
author of the coastline extractor page has hopes that they will be updated.  He
noted that the page is due to be transferred to NOAA  management, and so the
link to it may also change in the near future.

Ansley Manke
 

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Ansley Manke  Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory  Seattle WA  (206)526-6246