[Basemap] Preferred form of modification for data files

Hello,
To be available from the Debian main archive, we need to provide a
tarball containing all source code, something that later generates a
"binary" content or in a form that's what called "the preferred form
of modification" (f.e. in a sphinx doc, it's the rst files, not the
html files resulting from the building process, since the preferred
form of modification of that documentation is thru the rst files).

The question comes directly to the datafile: is the file format
datafiles are shipped the preferred form of modification? if yes, what
are the ways/tools to modify those files? Moreover, what are the
sources of those files (i.e. where are they downloaded from)?

I know that it might seem a bit picky, from a Debian POV, these
information are really important.

Thanks & Cheers,

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Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu)
My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/
Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi

Sandro,

Moreover, what are the

sources of those files (i.e. where are they downloaded from)?

From the README,

the coastline, lake, river and political boundary data are extracted
from datasets provided with the Generic Mapping Tools
(http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu)

and are included under the terms given in LICENSE_data.

a public domain 5-minute land/sea/lake mask dataset from
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/cdroms/graham/graham/graham.htm

is included.

Ben Root

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On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 4:08 PM, Sandro Tosi <morph@…55…12…> wrote: