[R] Map of UK Counties - to use in R

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Hello.


 shapefiles in geographic coordinates for Epi Info
 http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/europe.htm second-level at
1998,  free available but  not public domain


 Regards.


--- Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:

> 
> The illustration you show is for the so-called
> traditional or historical
> counties of England, which may be available
> somewhere. There are
> non-georeferenced PNG files on Wikipedia, which
> might be used, but as far as
> I can see, only UK-based academics can register for
> access to the edina UK
> borders datasets.
> 
> One possibility is to use the 2006 NUTS boundaries
> shapefile from
> GISCO/EUROSTAT at:
> 
>
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/gisco/geodata/reference
> 
>
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/GISCO/geodatafiles/NUTS_03M_2006_SH.zip
> 
> and in R using something like:
> 
> library(rgdal)
> RG <- readOGR(".", "NUTS_RG_03M_2006")
> names(RG)
> UK <- grep("^UK", RG$NUTS_ID)
> RG_UK <- RG[UK,]
> plot(RG_UK, axes=TRUE)
> summary(RG_UK)
> 
> You'll then need to find the regions you want,
> possibly from:
> 
> http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/nuts.asp
> 
> so that you can retain only England, and choose the
> NUTS* boundaries that
> suit your "counties" - which are not presently
> well-defined because of
> boundary and administrative changes. The GISCO
> shapefile is in geographical
> coordinates, so you'll be able to overplot points by
> longitude and latitude.
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Roger Bivand
> 
> 
> Raoul wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > Can anyone help me with either of these:
> > 1) Map of the UK counties that I could use in R?
> > 2) How could I use an existing map for example, a
> map from here
> > http://www.itraveluk.co.uk/maps/england.html - in
> R. I need to use a UK
> > map to plot locations on it by lat & long.
> > 
> > Would appreciate help on any of these.
> > Thanks,
> > Raoul
> > 
> 
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