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+GSHHS - Global Self-consistant Hierarchical High-resolution Shorelines
+
+http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/soest/gmt.html
+
+This utility transforms the raw GSHHS data into TerraGear polygons and
+chops them up according to our tiling scheme.
+
+Usage: ./gshhs <gshhs_file> <work_dir> <level> [ area_type ]
+
+level must be either 1 (land), 2 (lake), 3 (island), or 4 (pond)
+
+This determines which feature of the data set to extract.  If you want
+to extract all four feature types, you will need to run the utility 4
+separate times.  I recommend you extract each feature into a separate
+work directory.  This will ease managment issues if something get's
+hosed during the run or if you want to go rerun a section.  This also
+allows you to optionally build scenery with the land mass source, but
+not the lakes/islands/ponds if you should decide to use a different
+data souce for those.
+
+Some of the initial large landmass processing can consume a large
+amount of RAM if you are processing the highest res data set.
+
+By default, this utility assigns the "DefaultArea" land cover type to
+the land mass.  You can optionally override this if you want to use
+something else.  TerraGear uses the land cover to assign textures in
+the final scenery.