# Installation

Pycoast depends on pyshp and PIL.

Install pycoast and dependencies.

Download the zipped GSHHS and WDBII Shapefiles from SOEST. Unzip the files to a data directory (hereafter called GSHHS_DATA_ROOT). The structure of GSHHS_DATA_ROOT should now be:

    .
    ├── GSHHS_shp
    │   ├── c
    │   ├── f
    │   ├── h
    │   ├── i
    │   └── l
    └── WDBII_shp
        ├── c
        ├── f
        ├── h
        ├── i
        └── l

Where each dir on the lowest level contains Shapefiles like GSHHS_shp/c/GSHHS_c_L1.shp