Country borders and shorelines around the SAFE Project

This dataset contains regional country boundaries around the SAFE project from two online sources.

Digital chart of the world from https://worldmap.harvard.edu/data/geonode:Digital_Chart_of_the_World.

A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database (GSHHG). This is a large vector GIS database containing shorelines for seas and lakes and other vector data layers at a number of different resolutions. The full archive was downloaded from: < href='http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/'>http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/

Details of the file extraction and coverage can be found here: https://www.safeproject.net/dokuwiki/safe_gis/country_shoreline.

Project: This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: SAFE CORE DATA

XML metadata: GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here

Files: This dataset consists of 2 files: SAFE_Country_border_metadata.xlsx, SAFE_shore_and_country_borders.zip

SAFE_Country_border_metadata.xlsx

This file only contains metadata for the files below

SAFE_shore_and_country_borders.zip

Description: Contains three shapefiles of local country borders

This file contains 3 data tables:

1. Feature properties (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_DCW)

   Description: Field descriptions for shapefile properties

   Number of fields: 13

   Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).

   Fields:

   • ID: Feature ID (Field type: id)
   • FIPS10_4: FIPS country code (Field type: categorical)
   • COUNTRY: Country name (Field type: categorical)
   • CONTCODE: Continent code (Field type: categorical)
   • CONT: Continent name (Field type: categorical)
   • F_CODE: Geo code (Field type: categorical)
   • F_CODE_DES: Description of F code (Field type: comments)
   • OW_ABBREV: OW country codes (Field type: categorical)
   • ISO_A2: Two letter ISO country code (Field type: categorical)
   • ISO_A3: Three letter ISO country code (Field type: categorical)
   • VMAP_ID: Base vector map source ids (Field type: categorical)
   • FACTBK_CTY: Factbook Country name (Field type: categorical)
   • Fips2: FIPS 2 character code (Field type: categorical)

2. Feature properties (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_GSHHS_Shoreline_f)

   Description: Field descriptions for shapefile properties

   Number of fields: 6

   Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).

   Fields:

   • id: Feature ID (Field type: id)
   • level: Level of nesting of feature (Field type: numeric)
   • source: Source of original geodata (Field type: categorical)
   • parent_id: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)
   • sibling_id: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)
   • area: Area of feature (Field type: numeric)

3. Feature properties (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_GSHHS_Shoreline_i)

   Description: Field descriptions for shapefile properties

   Number of fields: 6

   Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).

   Fields:

   • id: Feature ID (Field type: id)
   • level: Level of nesting of feature (Field type: numeric)
   • source: Source of original geodata (Field type: categorical)
   • parent_id: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)
   • sibling_id: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)
   • area: Area of feature (Field type: numeric)

Date range: 2010-10-01 to 2019-10-01

Latitudinal extent: -11.0049 to 21.1200

Longitudinal extent: 95.0000 to 141.0200