coastlineWorldMedium: World coastline at medium-scale (1:50M) resolution
Description
coastlineWorldMedum is analogous to coastlineWorld in the oce
package, but at higher resolution, i.e. showing more detail. It is suitable
for basin-scale plots; for sub-basin work, try coastlineWorldFine.
Usage
data(coastlineWorldMedium, package="ocedata")
Arguments
Details
The data for coastlineWorldMedium were downloaded from shapefile
ne_50m_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.
# Regional plot of the Maritime provinces of Canada.data(coastlineWorldMedium, package="ocedata")
if (FALSE) {
library(oce)
plot(coastlineWorldMedium, clongitude=-63, clatitude=45.5, span=600)
}