oce (version 0.2-1)

coastlineWorld: World coastline

Description

World coastline

Usage

data(coastlineWorld)

source

http://thematicmapping.org, which provides the data in a zipfile containing the above-named .shp file, covered by a Creative Commons license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/).

Details

The longitudes are in the range from -180 to 180 degrees, i.e. western longitudes have negative values. Created by downloading the file TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.zip from http://thematicmapping.org/downloads/world_borders.php, then unzipping and running the following: coastlineWorld <- read.coastline.shapefile("TM_WORLD_BORDERS-0.3.shp") save(coastlineWorld, file="coastlineWorld.rda", compress="xz")

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 coastlineMaritimes.