mapCoordinateSystem: Draw a coordinate system

In oce: Analysis of Oceanographic Data

Draw a coordinate system

Description

Draws arrows on a map to indicate a coordinate system, e.g. for an to indicate a coordinate system set up so that one axis is parallel to a coastline.

Usage

mapCoordinateSystem(longitude, latitude, L = 100, phi = 0, ...)

Arguments

longitude	numeric vector of longitudes in degrees.
latitude	numeric vector of latitudes in degrees.
L	axis length in km.
phi	angle, in degrees counterclockwise, that the "x" axis makes to a line of latitude.
...	plotting arguments, passed to mapArrows(); see “Examples” for how to control the arrow-head size.

Details

This is a preliminary version of this function. It only works if the lines of constant latitude are horizontal on the plot.

Author(s)

Chantelle Layton

See Also

Other functions related to maps: formatPosition(), lonlat2map(), lonlat2utm(), map2lonlat(), mapArrows(), mapAxis(), mapContour(), mapDirectionField(), mapGrid(), mapImage(), mapLines(), mapLocator(), mapLongitudeLatitudeXY(), mapPlot(), mapPoints(), mapPolygon(), mapScalebar(), mapText(), mapTissot(), oceCRS(), shiftLongitude(), usrLonLat(), utm2lonlat()

Examples

## Not run: 
library(oce)
if (requireNamespace("ocedata", quietly=TRUE)) {
    data(coastlineWorldFine, package='ocedata')
    HfxLon <- -63.5752
    HfxLat <- 44.6488
    mapPlot(coastlineWorldFine, proj='+proj=merc',
            longitudelim=HfxLon+c(-2,2), latitudelim=HfxLat+c(-2,2),
            col='lightgrey')
    mapCoordinateSystem(HfxLon, HfxLat, phi=45, length=0.05)
   }

## End(Not run)

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