DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.630241
title: Country borders and shorelines around the SAFE Project

description: <b>Description: </b>This dataset contains regional country boundaries around the SAFE project from two online sources.<br><br><b>Digital chart of the world</b> from https://worldmap.harvard.edu/data/geonode:Digital_Chart_of_the_World.<br><br><b>A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database (GSHHG)</b>. 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: &lt; href='http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/'&gt;http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/<br><br>Details of the file extraction and coverage can be found here: https://www.safeproject.net/dokuwiki/safe_gis/country_shoreline.<b>Project: </b>This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: <b>SAFE CORE DATA</b><b>XML metadata: </b>GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here<b>Files: </b>This dataset consists of 2 files: SAFE_Country_border_metadata.xlsx, SAFE_shore_and_country_borders.zip<b>SAFE_Country_border_metadata.xlsx</b>This file only contains metadata for the files below<b>SAFE_shore_and_country_borders.zip</b>Description: Contains three shapefiles of local country bordersThis file contains 3 data tables:<b>Feature properties</b> (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_DCW)Description: Field descriptions for shapefile propertiesNumber of fields: 13Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).Fields: <b>ID</b>: Feature ID (Field type: id)<b>FIPS10_4</b>: FIPS country code (Field type: categorical)<b>COUNTRY</b>: Country name (Field type: categorical)<b>CONTCODE</b>: Continent code (Field type: categorical)<b>CONT</b>: Continent name (Field type: categorical)<b>F_CODE</b>: Geo code (Field type: categorical)<b>F_CODE_DES</b>: Description of F code (Field type: comments)<b>OW_ABBREV</b>: OW country codes (Field type: categorical)<b>ISO_A2</b>: Two letter ISO country code (Field type: categorical)<b>ISO_A3</b>: Three letter ISO country code (Field type: categorical)<b>VMAP_ID</b>: Base vector map source ids (Field type: categorical)<b>FACTBK_CTY</b>: Factbook Country name (Field type: categorical)<b>Fips2</b>: FIPS 2 character code (Field type: categorical)<b>Feature properties</b> (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_GSHHS_Shoreline_f)Description: Field descriptions for shapefile propertiesNumber of fields: 6Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).Fields: <b>id</b>: Feature ID (Field type: id)<b>level</b>: Level of nesting of feature (Field type: numeric)<b>source</b>: Source of original geodata (Field type: categorical)<b>parent_id</b>: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)<b>sibling_id</b>: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)<b>area</b>: Area of feature (Field type: numeric)<b>Feature properties</b> (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_GSHHS_Shoreline_i)Description: Field descriptions for shapefile propertiesNumber of fields: 6Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).Fields: <b>id</b>: Feature ID (Field type: id)<b>level</b>: Level of nesting of feature (Field type: numeric)<b>source</b>: Source of original geodata (Field type: categorical)<b>parent_id</b>: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)<b>sibling_id</b>: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)<b>area</b>: Area of feature (Field type: numeric)<b>Date range: </b>2010-10-01 to 2019-10-01<b>Latitudinal extent: </b>-11.0049 to 21.1200<b>Longitudinal extent: </b>95.0000 to 141.0200