Thanks a million Roger! This works well. All I now need to do is to figure how I can plot data from a csv file onto the map. I really appreciate your assistance! Regards, Raoul
Roger Bivand 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-tp24930435p24948470.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.
