spam (version 2.5-1)

germany.data: Meta-data about administrative districts of Germany

Description

Data for the display of data over the administrative districts of Germany

Format

germany.info is a list with elements

n

544 (number of districts around 1990).

xrep,yrep

representative coordinates of the districts (vectors of length 544)

xlim,ylim

2-vectors defining the limits of the districts.

polyid

linking the polygons to the districts (599 vector).

id

linking the districts to Community Identification Number.

germany.poly defines the polygons. It is a 17965 by two matrix, each polygon separated by a row of NAs, each district by two rows. germany defines the polygons in form of a list (backwards compatibility).

Details

The representative coordinates are calculated based on the mean value of the polygon coordinates. This creates sometimes strange values, e.g., district Leer.

References

The meta-data has been constructed based on (essentially) files from the package INLA, see demo(Bym).

See also http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amtlicher_Gemeindeschl%C3%BCssel and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Districts_of_Germany

See Also

germany.plot Oral.

Examples

# NOT RUN {
# Plot the Bundeslaender:
germany.plot(germany.info$id%/%1000,col=rep(2:8,3), legend=FALSE)
# }

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