[R-sig-Geo] which data format should I buy

[ONKELINX, Thierry]

Dear Jan,

Have a look at GIRAF http://giraf.agiv.be/. They will be cheaper if you
are working in a government institution or doing a project for a
government institution. We get most of our GIS data for them.
They have the data as ESRI shapefiles, so it shouldn't be a problem to
read them into R. 

Cheers,

Thierry

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Van: r-sig-geo-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
[mailto:r-sig-geo-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] Namens Jan Wijffels
Verzonden: vrijdag 21 december 2007 0:43
Aan: r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
Onderwerp: [R-sig-Geo] which data format should I buy


Hi,

I'm a newbie to spatial statistics and I'm considering to buy a map of
Belgium with its communes. If I go to the website of the national
geographical institute of Belgium (http://www.ngi.be/FR/FR1-5-2.shtm or
http://www.ngi.be/NL/NL1-5-2.shtm if you speak Dutch), I see it offers a
digital ArcInfo dataset and also a DWG formatted dataset for 300 euros. 
My objective is to make some kind of plot like in Rnews Volume 5/2,
November 2005, Figure 3 on page 12
(http://www.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/Rnews_2005-2.pdf) but not for North
Carolina but for Belgium and later on to do some more advanced spatial
statistics. Can I do this with the ArcInfo or the DWG file offered at
that website or do I really need a ESRI shapefile to do that kind of
plotting as explained in Rnews?

thanks in advance,
Jan Wijffels
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