How to establish location of points relative to a line

2008/10/10 Bjarke Christensen <Bjarke.Christensen at sydbank.dk>:
Hi,

I have a SpatialLinesDataFrame (A) and a SpatialPointsDataFrame (B). How
can I establish which points in B are to the east of a given line in A?

The problem is to figure out which persons (whose addresses are geocoded in
B) have addresses to the east of a given road (whose coordinates are given
in A).
Is this problem well-defined for a wiggly road? You could be both
east and west of a particularly curvy road.

You could take the nearest point of the road to the address location
and then see if this vector has a positive or negative X component....
Perhaps you could consider completing a polygon with the road on the 
"west" edge, for your definition of "west", for example adding the south. 
east and north edges of the bounding box of the points to the line (take 
care over ring direction!). Then the overlay method would get you there.

Roger
And of course it would be a trivial problem in New York (except for 
Broadway!).

PS: or Wall St., here today, gone tomorrow?
Barry

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How to establish location of points relative to a line

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