oce (version 0.9-14)

coastlineWorld: World coastline

Description

World coastline, in any of three resolutions

Usage

data(coastlineWorld)

source

Downloaded from http://www.naturalearthdata.com, in ne_110m_admin_0_countries.shp.

Details

In each case, the longitudes are in the range from -180 to 180 degrees, i.e. western longitudes have negative values. Large lakes (particularly the Great Lakes) are missing from these datasets, since the intention is for use in ocean mapping. The resolutions of the three coastlines are listed below, along with typical applications.

• coastlineWorldis a coarse resolution 1:110M (with 10,696 points), suitable for world-scale plots plotted at a small size, e.g. inset diagrams
• coastlineWorldMediumresolution 1:50M (with 100,954 points), suitable for world- or basin-scale plots
• coastlineWorldFineresolution 1:10M (with 552,670 points), suitable for shelf-scale plots

See Also

The ocedata package provides two more coastlines with better resolution: coastlineWorldMedium and coastlineWorldFine. The documentation for coastline-class explains the structure of coastline objects and discusses functions that deal with them.

The maps package provides a database named world that has 27221 points.