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Kitts and Nevis St. The files you can download here are for use in DIVA for automatic georeferencing to assign coordinates to places.

It can be imported to most other GIS programs. Shapefiles contain a single class of "vector" data such as points, lines, or polygons. More info on format ; for developers. A gridfile with "country mask" indicates that the areas outside the selected country are masked out. For the other gridfiles, NODATA is only used for areas covered with water, except for the land cover grids, on which water is a separate class.

A DBF dBase file is a dbase format database table. Resolution The resolution is the size of each grid cell expressed as the length of one side of one square cell.

The units are in arc degrees, minutes or seconds. When the cell size is small e. The size in square meters varies with latitude.