home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- NAME
- world - read WORLD.DAT and generate GRAPH input file
-
- SYNOPSIS
- world [n] >outfile
-
- USAGE
- WORLD.DAT contains binary data for 7574 world coastline points. WORLD
- reads points from WORLD.DAT and prints to stdout a file suitable for
- GRAPH or GLOBE (that is, an ASCII file of longitude latitude pairs).
-
- For some purposes, a subset of WORLD.DAT would suffice. WORLD will
- accept a single parameter indicating the factor by which the data
- should be shrunk. In other words, the command
-
- world 3 >foo3
-
- will retain approximately every third point in the input file. However,
- at least one point will be retained from each of the 164 line segments.
-
- REFERENCES
- WORLD.DAT accompanies "Mapping the World in Pascal" by Robert Miller
- and Francis Reddy, BYTE, December 1987, page 329. For further documentation,
- see WORLDMAP.TXT.
-
- WORLD was written by James R. Van Zandt (jrv@mbunix.mitre.org)
-
-