Anyone know where or how to obtain a database of worldwide beaches?
Required fields are:
- name
- latitude
- longitude
- coastline aspect (if possible)
Alternatively, is there a way to query Google Maps to find the closest beaches to a given geolocation?
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maybe this can help you (shorelines): http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/shorelines/gshhs.html they have both ESRI shapefile format or binary format |
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For Uk http://www.geostore.com/environment-agency/WebStore?xml=environment-agency/xml/ogcDataDownload.xml This may be of help for the UK. Something on this site may be of use for the US but I have no reason to use it so dont know: http://www.fws.gov/gis/data/national/index.html Hope this helps. |
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I'm not sure that "beach" is common world-wide. Those things called "beach" in the UK would be "rocks" in Australia. Anyway, perhaps wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:natural%3Dbeach and wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Overpass_API might be suitable if you are OK with the ODbL that Open Street Map uses. Note that ODbL requires more than just attribution. A simple version of the rights and responsibilities is at http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/ |
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Maybe try looking at the Places API and try querying on one of the second places types (https://developers.google.com/places/documentation/supported_types#table2). Beaches could possibly be in the 'natural_feature' category but that still doesn't get around the language problem. Good Luck. I believe the UK English word for beach is "Frigidpebble" ;-P |
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