[R-sig-Geo] world map data

[Roger Bivand]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2008, Oehler, Friderike (AGPP) wrote:

> For data of a world map of administrative boundaries, I can also recommend
> the "Global Administrative Unit Layers" from the FAO Geonetwork catalog
> http://www.fao.org/geonetwork/ Just enter "GAUL" in the search window. The
> data exist from 1990 to 2008.

Thanks. These are very good data sets, and show how much work has been put 
into their construction and delivery.

A simpler alternative is shown on an unfinished webpage on my site:

http://spatial.nhh.no/R/etc/world_map_intro.html

and an older and two newer downloads of worldmaps, the newer ones 
generalised and much smaller in file size:

http://spatial.nhh.no/R/etc/world_countries.rda
http://spatial.nhh.no/R/etc/TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.2.RData
http://spatial.nhh.no/R/etc/TM_WORLD_BORDERS_SIMPL-0.2_Mollweide.RData

with the latter in the Mollweide projection. They use the classes defined 
in the sp package. The work was "done" in connection with a QUEST workshop 
in Devon UK in early July. They are all RData files to load directly into 
R.

Hope this helps,

Roger

>
> Cheers,
> Friderike
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: r-sig-geo-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch
> [mailto:r-sig-geo-bounces at stat.math.ethz.ch] On Behalf Of rick reeves
> Sent: 16 December 2008 19:24
> To: Dave Lunn; r-sig-geo at stat.math.ethz.ch
> Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] world map data
>
>
> Dave:
>
> Here is one place to obtain the Digital Chart of the World, which should
> be more accurate:
>
> http://www.maproom.psu.edu/dcw/   (Penn State University DCW Server)
>
> Get the shape files, use R maptools routines (e.g., ReadShapePoly) to
> read the files.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Rick Reeves
>
> Dave Lunn wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> Sorry if this is a dumb question.... I'm trying to produce a world map
>> showing WinBUGS useage from the data collected at the mrc-bsu
>> web-site. I've been trying to use the map + mapdata packages but was
>> surprised to find that the geography of the world map seemed a little
>> out-of-date, being specified in terms of USSR and Yugoslavia, for
>> instance. I wondered if there was a more up-to-date version available
>> somewhere??
>> Best wishes + many thanks for any help you can give...
>> Dave Lunn
>>
>
>
>

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