> Put a bounding box around the phlippines, a long way out way out so the sea > looks good and chop out the bounding box and make a new shape file Using gdal/ogr: http://www.gdal.org/ogr2ogr.html
ogr2ogr -f "ESRI Shapefile" -t_srs EPSG:4326 -clipdst [xmin ymin xmax ymax] output.shp input.shp > If possible, I would like to have the ocean as polygons and land as polygons > in the same shape file, with fields for eacj poly stating ocean or land for > each so I can style them separately, so it would mean closing the ocean > polygons. Why do you still need the ocean? Can you just paint in your style as blue (or whatever ocean color) as a global background settings? Just guessing here. -- cheers, maning ------------------------------------------------------ "Freedom is still the most radical idea of all" -N.Branden wiki: http://esambale.wikispaces.com/ blog: http://epsg4253.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ talk-ph mailing list talk-ph@openstreetmap.org https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-ph