Shape file for North America

Question

list! Could you please help me. I need the coastline shape file of North America, something like this http://www.diva-gis.org/gdata

I used it for geoserver+postgis with osm sld-tyles like the background

Answer 1

The reference coastline data that OSM uses (at different scales) might be useful:

http://tile.openstreetmap.org/world_boundaries-spherical.tgz # (50M) http://tile.openstreetmap.org/processed_p.tar.bz2 # (227MB) http://tile.openstreetmap.org/shoreline_300.tar.bz2 # (46MB)

The processed_p shapefile is the highest-detail coastline data for the entire world, but it's not divided by country. You might be able to take that data and extract just the data for North America.

Answer 2

For the US - What about the NOAA Shoreline site? Specifically the Coastal Geospatial Data Project.

EDIT: NOAA National Geophysical Data Center GSHHS Dataset does cover the whole world. And here are some other sources at marinegis.com

Answer 3

Cloudmade have the US coastline in Open Street Map in shapefile format - coastline included.

There is no quick way to extract Coastline from Open Street Map currently so you will have to download the entire data-set and extract what you want.

http://downloads.cloudmade.com/americas/northern_america/united_states#downloads_breadcrumbs