MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.6.4)

convertWeatherZones: Convert NWS Public Forecast Zones Shapefile

Description

Returns a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame for NWS weather forecast zones.

Usage

convertWeatherZones(nameOnly = FALSE, simplify = TRUE)

Arguments

nameOnly

logical specifying whether to only return the name without creating the file

simplify

logical specifying whether to create "_05" version of the file that is simplified to 5%

Value

Name of the dataset being created.

Details

A weather forecast zones shapefile is downloaded and converted to a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with additional columns of data. The resulting file will be created in the spatial data directory which is set with setSpatialDataDir().

References

https://www.weather.gov/gis/PublicZones

See Also

setSpatialDataDir