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Introduction

The 'Shoreline' toolbox allows exporting of allows to export shoreline data applied in Dashboardof Delft Dashboard. Delft Dashboard makes uses use of the World Vector Shoreline (National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency - NGA).The resolution of this dataset data set is about 500 m.

Usage of the toolbox

A An shoreline file (.ldb) can be generate using the following steps:

1. Define a Define the polygon in which you would like to have shoreline. This is possible in two ways from which you want to extract the shoreline location. The two alternatives are:
   1. “Draw Polygon” to select newly create a polygon inside which extracting the shoreline. . Double click to close the polygon.
   2. “Load Polygon” to load an existing polygon (“*.pol”pol). “Export” to export the polygong polygon in “*.ldb” ldb format.
2. Define the scale 
3. Click on  “Export” on  “Export” to export the polygon in a ldb-format

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Figure: With the Shoreline toolbox one can easily get the shoreline of any specific area as shown in the example of the west coast of Australia