HI.coast: SpatialLinesDataFrame of the coastline of Hawaii, USA

Description Usage Format Examples

Description

A SpatialLinesDataFrame [package "sp"] containing lines outlining the coast of the Hawaiian Islands, USA.

Usage

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data("HI.coast")

Format

A SpatialLinesDataFrame containing 12 lines outlining the coastline of Hawaii. The Shapefile from which this coastline was queried can be found at http://nationalmap.gov/small_scale/atlasftp.html (file 'coastll010g.shp.tar.gz').

From metadata of the shapefile, attributes of the points are as follows:

  1. Coastln010 = An internal sequence number delineating lines.

  2. Miles = The length of the coastline segment, in miles.

proj4string is +proj=utm +zone=4 +datum=WGS84 +ellps=WGS84 +towgs84=0,0,0, meaning among other things that the coordinates are projected (UTM's).

The rectangular bounding box of the polygon is

min max
x 371155 940304.1
y 2094278 2458600.9

Examples

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