Hello.
shapefiles in geographic coordinates for Epi Info http://www.cdc.gov/epiinfo/europe.htm second-level at 1998, free available but not public domain Regards. --- Roger Bivand <roger.biv...@nhh.no> wrote: > > The illustration you show is for the so-called > traditional or historical > counties of England, which may be available > somewhere. There are > non-georeferenced PNG files on Wikipedia, which > might be used, but as far as > I can see, only UK-based academics can register for > access to the edina UK > borders datasets. > > One possibility is to use the 2006 NUTS boundaries > shapefile from > GISCO/EUROSTAT at: > > http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page/portal/gisco/geodata/reference > > http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/cache/GISCO/geodatafiles/NUTS_03M_2006_SH.zip > > and in R using something like: > > library(rgdal) > RG <- readOGR(".", "NUTS_RG_03M_2006") > names(RG) > UK <- grep("^UK", RG$NUTS_ID) > RG_UK <- RG[UK,] > plot(RG_UK, axes=TRUE) > summary(RG_UK) > > You'll then need to find the regions you want, > possibly from: > > http://www.statistics.gov.uk/geography/nuts.asp > > so that you can retain only England, and choose the > NUTS* boundaries that > suit your "counties" - which are not presently > well-defined because of > boundary and administrative changes. The GISCO > shapefile is in geographical > coordinates, so you'll be able to overplot points by > longitude and latitude. > > Hope this helps, > > Roger Bivand > > > Raoul wrote: > > > > Hi, > > Can anyone help me with either of these: > > 1) Map of the UK counties that I could use in R? > > 2) How could I use an existing map for example, a > map from here > > http://www.itraveluk.co.uk/maps/england.html - in > R. I need to use a UK > > map to plot locations on it by lat & long. > > > > Would appreciate help on any of these. > > Thanks, > > Raoul > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/Map-of-UK-Counties---to-use-in-R-tp24930435p24941090.html > Sent from the R help mailing list archive at > Nabble.com. > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, > reproducible code. > ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
