coastline.maritimes {oce} | R Documentation |
A sample coastline dataset, showing Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and part of New Brunswick. This is the oce author's stomping ground, and so he feels compelled to apologize for the error at the Strait of Canso.
data(coastline.maritimes)
Dan Kelley
The data were extracted from the the 1:2,000,000 ``World Data Bank II'' dataset at the NOAA site.
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg_coastline/index.jsp?llat=43.0&ulat=47.2&llon=-66.8&rlon=-59.5
Coastlines may be read with
read.coastline
, or created with
as.coastline
; see these for details of the data format. Other coastline datasets provided with
oce are coastline.hal
and coastline.world
.