Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples
View source: R/geo_surround_poly.R
Generates a collection of points that are equidistant to the center coordinates given and are distributed equally around the center
1 | geo_surround_poly(coordinates, distance, sides)
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coordinates |
A vector of the center latitude and longitude point |
distance |
Distance to move away from center for each bearing |
sides |
Number of polygon sides |
Returns a matrix of latitude and longitude points.
Shant Sukljian
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 | # Load required packages
library(mapview)
library(sp)
# Create sample geo dataset
sample_coord <-
matrix(
c(
sample(327131680:419648450, 1) / 10000000,
sample(-1147301410:-1241938690, 1) / 10000000
),
ncol = 2
)
# Create 80 sided polygon based on a random center and radius
geo_poly <- geo_surround_poly(sample_coord, sample(50:500, 1), 80)
# Join all the points into a single matrix
bound_poly <- rbind(sample_coord, geo_poly)
# Create SpacialPoints object and pass to mapview for visualization
mapview(
SpatialPoints(
bound_poly[,c(2, 1)],
proj4string = CRS("+proj=longlat +datum=WGS84")
)
)
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