maps (version 3.4.0)

map.where: Locate points on a map

Description

Returns the region names containing given locations.

Usage

map.where(database = "world", x, y, ...)

Value

A list of character strings, naming the map region that each (longitude, latitude) pair falls into.

Author

Tom Minka

Arguments

database

character string naming a geographical database, or a list of x, y, and names. See the documentation for map for more details.

x

vector of longitudes.

y

vector of latitudes.

...

Options for SpatialPolygons2map, only used if database is of type SpatialPolygonsDataFrame

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See Also

in.polygon

Examples

# NYC
map.where("state", -73.8, 41)
# Auckland
map.where("nz", 174.6, -36.92)
# find both in the world
map.where(x = c(174.6, -73.8), y = c(-36.92, 41))
# with a map object:
m = map("state", "new york", fill = TRUE, plot = FALSE)
map.where(m, -73.8, 41)