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MazamaSpatialUtils (version 0.7.6)

convertGACC: Convert Geographic Area Coordination Center shapefile

Description

Create a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame for Geographic Area Coordination Centers (GACCs). These are regions defined by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC).

Usage

convertGACC(nameOnly = FALSE, simplify = TRUE)

Value

Name of the dataset being created.

Arguments

nameOnly

Logical specifying whether to only return the name without creating the file.

simplify

Logical specifying whether to create "_05", _02" and "_01" versions of the file that are simplified to 5%, 2% and 1%.

Details

A GACC 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().

The source data is from 2020.

References

https://hub.arcgis.com/datasets/7dc5f4a286bd47e0aaafa0ab05302fe9_0

See Also

setSpatialDataDir