Sea-or-land test

[kyosohma at gmail.com]

On Sep 12, 6:54 am, kpalamartch... at gmail.com wrote:
> Could you advise if there exists a simple package, containing function
> that would take geographic coordinates and return information on
> whether this point belongs to land or sea? No great accuracy is needed
> -- I am interested in just major features, like those seen on coarse
> world maps.

This may be of use to you: http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/geopy

or http://blog.case.edu/bmb12/2006/09/geocoding_tools_for_python_and_caseclasses

Should be helpful anyway.

Mike