GEOmap (version 2.5-11)

rotateGEOmap: Rotate a GEOmap

Description

Rotate a GEOmap to a new location on the globe

Usage

rotateGEOmap(INmap, TARGlat, TARGlon, LAT0, LON0, beta = 0)

Value

GEOmap list.

Arguments

INmap

Input GEOmap

TARGlat

Target center latitide

TARGlon

Target center longitide

LAT0

Source center latitide

LON0

Source center longitide

beta

rotation through axis coming out of screen

Author

Jonathan M. Lees<[e-mail]>

Details

This function is used to translate a given map region to another for over plotting. You can compare the areas of two region using the same projection.

See Also

plotGEOmapXY

Examples

library(maps)


zz = map('state', region = c('new york', 'new jersey', 'penn'))

neweng  = maps2GEOmap(zz)

plotGEOmap(neweng)
##  L1 = locator(1)
L1=list()
L1$x=c(283.671347071854)
L1$y=c(42.008587074537)

LIMS1 = list( lon=range(neweng$POINTS$lon), lat=range(neweng$POINTS$lat) )

LIMS = c(LIMS1$lon[1], LIMS1$lat[1], LIMS1$lon[2], LIMS1$lat[2])

##########   prepare maps 2:

z2 = map('world', region = c('iceland'))
ice   = maps2GEOmap(z2)
plotGEOmap(ice)

##  L2 = locator(1)
L2=list()
L2$x=c(341.146812632372)
L2$y=c(64.9180246121089)

############    this version here is nicer, but required WORLMAP2
###kice = grep('ice' , coast2$STROKES$nam, ignore.case =TRUE)

### ice = GEOmap.Extract(coast2, kice  ,"in")

MAP = rotateGEOmap(ice, L1$y ,  L1$x ,  L2$y ,  L2$x, beta=-90 )


proj = setPROJ( 2, LAT0=L1$y, LON0=L1$x )

plotGEOmapXY(neweng, LIM=LIMS,  PROJ =proj, axes=FALSE, xlab="", ylab="" )


plotGEOmapXY(MAP, LIM=LIMS,  PROJ =proj, axes=FALSE, xlab="",
     ylab="", add = TRUE, MAPcol = grey(.85)  , lwd=2, xpd=TRUE)



  plotGEOmapXY(neweng, LIM=LIMS,  PROJ =proj,
       axes=FALSE, xlab="", ylab="", add=TRUE )