oce (version 0.2-1)

coastlineMaritimes: Coastline data set, showing Maritime provinces of Canada

Description

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.

Usage

data(coastlineMaritimes)

source

The data were extracted from the the 1:2,000,000 ``World Data Bank II'' dataset at the NOAA site.

References

http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg_coastline/index.jsp?llat=43.0&ulat=47.2&llon=-66.8&rlon=-59.5

See Also

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 coastlineHalifax and coastlineWorld.