[R-sig-Geo] Bearing angle of UTM projected SpatialLines

Eduardo Diez eduardodiez at gmx.com
Wed May 25 21:16:34 CEST 2016


I forgot to add the complete coordinates for the line:

> l1 at lines[[1]]@Lines[[1]]@coords
         [,1]    [,2]
[1,] 642236.2 6197243
[2,] 643005.6 6197948

> l1.geo at lines[[1]]@Lines[[1]]@coords
          [,1]      [,2]
[1,] -61.45336 -34.35639
[2,] -61.44511 -34.34994

Thanks

2016-05-25 16:09 GMT-03:00 Eduardo Diez <eduardodiez at gmx.com>:

> Here are some details and example:
>
> > sessionInfo()
> R version 3.2.5 (2016-04-14)
> Platform: x86_64-w64-mingw32/x64 (64-bit)
> Running under: Windows 7 x64 (build 7601) Service Pack 1
>
> locale:
> [1] LC_COLLATE=English_United States.1252  LC_CTYPE=English_United
> States.1252
> [3] LC_MONETARY=English_United States.1252 LC_NUMERIC=C
>
> [5] LC_TIME=English_United States.1252
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> other attached packages:
>  [1] RPyGeo_0.9-3        RSAGA_0.94-5        plyr_1.8.3
>  gstat_1.1-3
>  [5] shapefiles_0.7      foreign_0.8-66      rgdal_1.1-8
> maptools_0.8-39
>  [9] geosphere_1.5-1     ggplot2_2.1.0       raster_2.5-2
>  rgeos_0.3-19
> [13] sp_1.2-3            RevoUtilsMath_3.2.5
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
>  [1] Rcpp_0.12.4      maps_3.1.0       munsell_0.4.3    colorspace_1.2-6
> lattice_0.20-33
>  [6] FNN_1.1          xts_0.9-7        tools_3.2.5      parallel_3.2.5
> grid_3.2.5
> [11] gtable_0.2.0     intervals_0.15.1 digest_0.6.9     mapproj_1.2-4
>  labeling_0.3
> [16] scales_0.4.0     spacetime_1.1-5  zoo_1.7-12
>
> Spatial line: l1
> > str(l1)
> Formal class 'SpatialLinesDataFrame' [package "sp"] with 4 slots
>   ..@ data       :'data.frame': 1 obs. of  2 variables:
>   .. ..$ OBJECTID  : int 1
>   .. ..$ SHAPE_Leng: num 1043
>   .. ..- attr(*, "data_types")= chr [1:2] "N" "F"
>   ..@ lines      :List of 1
>   .. ..$ :Formal class 'Lines' [package "sp"] with 2 slots
>   .. .. .. ..@ Lines:List of 1
>   .. .. .. .. ..$ :Formal class 'Line' [package "sp"] with 1 slot
>   .. .. .. .. .. .. ..@ coords: num [1:2, 1:2] 642236 643006 6197243
> 6197948
>   .. .. .. ..@ ID   : chr "0"
>   ..@ bbox       : num [1:2, 1:2] 642236 6197243 643006 6197948
>   .. ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
>   .. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "x" "y"
>   .. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "min" "max"
>   ..@ proj4string:Formal class 'CRS' [package "sp"] with 1 slot
>   .. .. ..@ projargs: chr "+proj=utm +zone=20 +south +datum=WGS84 +units=m
> +no_defs +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0"
>
> Spatial line in geographic coordinates: l1.geo
> > str(l1.geo)
> Formal class 'SpatialLinesDataFrame' [package "sp"] with 4 slots
>   ..@ data       :'data.frame': 1 obs. of  2 variables:
>   .. ..$ OBJECTID  : int 1
>   .. ..$ SHAPE_Leng: num 1043
>   .. ..- attr(*, "data_types")= chr [1:2] "N" "F"
>   ..@ lines      :List of 1
>   .. ..$ :Formal class 'Lines' [package "sp"] with 2 slots
>   .. .. .. ..@ Lines:List of 1
>   .. .. .. .. ..$ :Formal class 'Line' [package "sp"] with 1 slot
>   .. .. .. .. .. .. ..@ coords: num [1:2, 1:2] -61.5 -61.4 -34.4 -34.3
>   .. .. .. ..@ ID   : chr "0"
>   ..@ bbox       : num [1:2, 1:2] -61.5 -34.4 -61.4 -34.3
>   .. ..- attr(*, "dimnames")=List of 2
>   .. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "x" "y"
>   .. .. ..$ : chr [1:2] "min" "max"
>   ..@ proj4string:Formal class 'CRS' [package "sp"] with 1 slot
>   .. .. ..@ projargs: chr "+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84 +no_defs
> +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0"
>
> Run of maptools::gzAzimuth:
> > gzAzimuth(from = l1.geo at lines[[1]]@Lines[[1]]@coords[1,],
> +                   to = l1.geo at lines[[1]]@Lines[[1]]@coords[2,])
> [1] 46.52677
>
> Run of geosphere::bearing:
> bearing(p1 = l1.geo at lines[[1]]@Lines[[1]]@coords[1,],
> + p2 = l1.geo at lines[[1]]@Lines[[1]]@coords[2,])
> [1] 46.65786
>
> Angle given by Linear Directional Mean for l1:
> 47.53076
>
> For l1.geo (in Lat/Lon) the ArcGIS' tool gives a warning that it it should
> be projected but calculates this angle:
> WARNING 000916: The input feature class does not appear to contain
> projected data.
> 51.94714
>
> I can provide further information or files but i think this can be enough
> for now.
> Thanks,
> Regards
>
> 2016-05-25 4:32 GMT-03:00 Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no>:
>
>> On Wed, 25 May 2016, Eduardo Diez wrote:
>>
>> Dear everyone,
>>> I'm used to calculating the compass angles (clockwise from due North) of
>>> line features projected in UTM using the tool Linear Directional Mean
>>> <
>>> http://resources.esri.com/help/9.3/arcgisengine/java/gp_toolref/spatial_statistics_tools/how_linear_directional_mean_spatial_statistics_works.htm
>>> >
>>> from ArcGIS.
>>> I could find functions for performing a similar task but taking Origin ->
>>> Destination points and only in Lat/Lon (geographic coordinates) namely:
>>> geosphere::bearing and maptools::gzAzimuth. (Somehow they give different
>>> results for the same set of points: around 0.05 degrees, maybe because of
>>> the trigonometry)
>>> Because of the nature of my work it has to be in UTM.
>>>
>>
>> Interesting question. Could you please provide a test set of pairs of
>> coordinates with the fully qualified UTM projection (which datum in
>> particular, and if WGS84, which version - there are several), the output
>> from ArcGIS (which version), and the geographical coordinates you see in
>> ArcGIS (to remove the possibility that it is a projection issue on the R
>> side). They don't need to mean anything, only that they can show us what
>> the problem is in code and numeric terms. A link to an R file and an RDS
>> file would be helpful.
>>
>> Roger
>>
>> Perhaps someone skillfull in trigonometry can figure it out but i'm not
>>> the
>>> case.
>>> Is there a way to do this in R?
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Eduardo
>>>
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>> --
>> Roger Bivand
>> Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics,
>> Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway.
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>> e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no
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>>
>
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