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, with a few ``fake'' points added to create a closed
geometry that can be drawn as a filled polygon.References
http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg_coastline/index.jsp?llat=43.0&ulat=47.2&llon=-66.8&rlon=-59.5See Also
The documentation for coastline-class
explains the
structure of coastline objects, and also outlines the other functions
dealing with them.