ocedata (version 0.2.2)

coastlineWorldFine: World coastline at fine-scale (1:10M) resolution

Description

coastlineWorldFine is analogous to coastlineWorldMedium, but at higher resolution, i.e. showing more detail. It may be used for regional (sub-basin) views, but for coastal work, users should consider downloading a file at finer resolution.

Usage

data(coastlineWorldFine, package="ocedata")

Details

The data for coastlineWorldFine were downloaded from shapefile ne_10m_admin_0_countries.shp, stored at https://www.naturalearthdata.com.

The documentation for coastline-class in oce explains the structure of coastline objects and discusses functions that deal with them.

See Also

Other coastline files: coastlineWorldMedium

Examples

# Regional plot of the Maritime provinces of Canada.
data(coastlineWorldFine, package="ocedata")
if (FALSE) {
library(oce)
plot(coastlineWorldFine, clongitude=-63, clatitude=45.5, span=600)
}