mapCH2016: Geodata of Swiss municipalities, districts, cantons and lakes...
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A ggplot2-compatible data frame containing geodata of Swiss municipalities, districts, cantons and lakes for 2016. The data is made publicly available by the Swiss Federal Statistical Office. The administrative divisions are scaled at 1:2,000,000.

mapCH2016

A data frame with 162,148 rows and 10 variables:

year: year of geodata
endofyear: if 0, the data dates from year-1-1, else from year-31-12
long: longitude of point
lat: latitude of point
group: if two adjacent points are in the same group, then they get connected
type: type of object point belongs to: municipality, district, canton, country, lake)
id: official identification number of object
name: name of object
dis: district object belongs to
can: canton object belongs to