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Hi,
I was just wondering if it is possible to take a shapefile with coastline information and convert that to a geotiff somehow to kind of automate the process of creating a water mask for a country's coastline. I have found several shapefiles with land and water polygons representing a country, or continents coastline, but I can't really figure out how to do a conversion to geotiff (or geotiffs), and therefore tiff files of a certain size that can then be recoloured to use as a watermask when running through FSX resample.
I'm sure this method won't be as accurate as hand drawing along a coastline, but I'm just wondering if there is a quick way to do it.
Cheers,
Scott
I was just wondering if it is possible to take a shapefile with coastline information and convert that to a geotiff somehow to kind of automate the process of creating a water mask for a country's coastline. I have found several shapefiles with land and water polygons representing a country, or continents coastline, but I can't really figure out how to do a conversion to geotiff (or geotiffs), and therefore tiff files of a certain size that can then be recoloured to use as a watermask when running through FSX resample.
I'm sure this method won't be as accurate as hand drawing along a coastline, but I'm just wondering if there is a quick way to do it.
Cheers,
Scott