World: World, Europe, and Netherlands map

Description

Maps of the world, Europe, and the Netherlands (province and municipality level), class SpatialPolygonsDataFrame

Usage

data(World)

data(Europe)

data(NLD_prov)

data(NLD_muni)

Arguments

source

http://www.naturalearthdata.com for World and Europe http://www.happyplanetindex.org for World and Europe http://www.cbs.nl for NLD_prov and NLD_muni.

Details

The default projections for these maps are Eckhart IV (World), Lambert azimuthal (Europe), and Rijksdriehoekstelsel (Netherlands). See below. To change the projection, use set_projection. Alternatively, the projection can be changed temporarily for plotting purposes by using the projection arugment of tm_shape (or qtm). World World map. The default projection for this world map is Eckhart IV since area sizes are preserved, which is a very important property for choropleths. Europe Europe map. Lambert azimuthal equal-area projection is used by default for this map. Several countries are transcontinental and are partly located in Asia. From these countries, only Russia and Turkey have been included in this map as part of Europe since they are widely considered as European countries. Other transcontinental countries Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Kazakhstan, are also included in the map, but only as background (so without data). From the other surrounding countries, only Greenland is removed from the map, since it interferes with the prefered map legend position at the lop left. NLD_prov and NLD_muni, maps of the Netherlands at province and municipality level of 2013. The used projection is the Rijksdriehoekstelsel projection. Important: publication of these maps is only allowed when cited to Statistics Netherlands (CBS) and Kadaster Nederland as source.

References

Statistics Netherlands (2014), The Hague/Heerlen, Netherlands, http://www.cbs.nl. Kadaster, the Netherlands' Cadastre, Land Registry, and Mapping Agency (2014), Apeldoorn, Netherlands, http://www.kadaster.nl. Statistics Netherlands (2014), The Hague/Heerlen, Netherlands, http://www.cbs.nl.