Country borders and shorelines around the SAFE Project

Description:
This dataset contains regional country boundaries around the SAFE project from two online sources.Digital chart of the world from https://worldmap.harvard.edu/data/geonode:Digital_Chart_of_the_World.A Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Geography Database (GSHHG). This is a large vector GIS database containing shorelines for seas and lakes and other vector data layers at a number of different resolutions. The full archive was downloaded from: < href='http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/'>http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/pwessel/gshhg/Details of the file extraction and coverage can be found here: https://www.safeproject.net/dokuwiki/safe_gis/country_shoreline.
Project: This dataset was collected as part of the following SAFE research project: SAFE CORE DATA
XML metadata: GEMINI compliant metadata for this dataset is available here
Files: This dataset consists of 2 files: SAFE_Country_border_metadata.xlsx, SAFE_shore_and_country_borders.zip
SAFE_Country_border_metadata.xlsx
This file only contains metadata for the files below
SAFE_shore_and_country_borders.zip
Description: Contains three shapefiles of local country borders
This file contains 3 data tables:

Feature properties (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_DCW)
Description: Field descriptions for shapefile properties
Number of fields: 13
Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).
Fields:

ID: Feature ID (Field type: id)
FIPS10_4: FIPS country code (Field type: categorical)
COUNTRY: Country name (Field type: categorical)
CONTCODE: Continent code (Field type: categorical)
CONT: Continent name (Field type: categorical)
F_CODE: Geo code (Field type: categorical)
F_CODE_DES: Description of F code (Field type: comments)
OW_ABBREV: OW country codes (Field type: categorical)
ISO_A2: Two letter ISO country code (Field type: categorical)
ISO_A3: Three letter ISO country code (Field type: categorical)
VMAP_ID: Base vector map source ids (Field type: categorical)
FACTBK_CTY: Factbook Country name (Field type: categorical)
Fips2: FIPS 2 character code (Field type: categorical)

Feature properties (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_GSHHS_Shoreline_f)
Description: Field descriptions for shapefile properties
Number of fields: 6
Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).
Fields:

id: Feature ID (Field type: id)
level: Level of nesting of feature (Field type: numeric)
source: Source of original geodata (Field type: categorical)
parent_id: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)
sibling_id: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)
area: Area of feature (Field type: numeric)

Feature properties (described in worksheet SAFE_Regional_GSHHS_Shoreline_i)
Description: Field descriptions for shapefile properties
Number of fields: 6
Number of data rows: Unavailable (table metadata description only).
Fields:

id: Feature ID (Field type: id)
level: Level of nesting of feature (Field type: numeric)
source: Source of original geodata (Field type: categorical)
parent_id: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)
sibling_id: Unknown feature ID reference (all values = -1) (Field type: id)
area: Area of feature (Field type: numeric)

Date range: 2010-10-01 to 2019-10-01
Latitudinal extent: -11.0049 to 21.1200
Longitudinal extent: 95.0000 to 141.0200