GEONODES. NGA. NASA. NSF. GIS Data Indexes. PEPFAR. United Nations. FAO. World Bank. NOAA. GSHHG A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database. As of version 2.2.2, GSHHG is released under the GNU Lesser General Public license.
The GSHHG is a high-resolution geography data set, amalgamated from two databases in the public domain: World Vector Shorelines (WVS) and CIA World Data Bank II (WDBII). The former is the basis for shorelines while the latter is the basis for lakes, although there are instances where differences in coastline representations necessitated adding WDBII islands to GSHHG. The WDBII source also provides all political borders and rivers. GSHHG data have undergone extensive processing and should be free of internal inconsistencies such as erratic points and crossing segments.
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