How to get the coordinates (latitude/longitude) of a continent outline?
Dear Ben, Thank you for your reply. So far as I am aware, the rnaturalearth package provides information about countries within a continent, states within countries and "world" coastline (subsetting the coastline is not possible). Nevertheless, the package does not include maps/data of "continents". What I need is the coordinates of Africa's outline (as a single entity), not the coordinates of countries' outlines within Africa. Best, Sohrab
On ?Saturday?, ?February? ?2?, ?2019? ?03?:?38?:?25? ?PM? ?CET, Ben Tupper wrote:
Hi, There is a whole world of options (sorry for the lame pun!), but I would recommend checking out ROpenSci's rnaturalearth package https://ropensci.org/tutorials/rnaturalearth_tutorial/ https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rnaturalearth Ben
On Feb 2, 2019, at 8:36 AM, Sohrab Abbasnejad via R-sig-Geo <r-sig-geo at r-project.org> wrote:
Hello, I would like to have the list of coordinates of the boundary (outline) of a continent (Africa). The "map" function from the "maps" package gives the coordinates for country outlines, but not the for the continents. Does anybody have an idea where I can find the data? Thank you! Cheers, Sohrab _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo at r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo Ben Tupper Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean?Sciences 60 Bigelow Drive, P.O. Box 380 East Boothbay, Maine 04544 http://www.bigelow.org Ecological Forecasting: https://eco.bigelow.org/