ornithoMap: Preparing vector maps

Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) See Also Examples

Description

Create an object of class ornithoMap, which holds vector maps for plotting grids, administrative borders and water bodies together with ornitho data.

Usage

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ornithoMap(grid4, border, river, lake, district)

Arguments

grid4

an object of class SpatialPolygons representing the grid of 1:25.000 topographical maps (often called "Messtischblaetter").

border

an object of class SpatialPolygons representing administrative borders.

river

an object of class SpatialLines representing flowing water bodies.

lake

an object of class SpatialPolygons representing standing water bodies.

what

see function crop.border.

to

see function crop.border.

type

see function openmap.

district

a character string giving the name of an administrative subunit; may be missing (default) to use the entire area.

Value

an object of class ornithoMap.

Author(s)

Christoph Heibl

See Also

a description of the class ornithoMap; read.ornitho for importing and ornithoPDF for plotting ornitho monitoring data.

Examples

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## load map data
data(hessen_grid)
data(hessen_border)
data(hessen_river)
data(hessen_lake)

## create ornithoMap object
hessen_map <- ornithoMap(
  grid4 = hessen_grid, 
  border = hessen_border,
  river = hessen_river,
  lake = hessen_lake
)

## see a short summary
print(hessen_map)

## plot map
opar <- par()$mar
par(mar = rep(0, 4))
plotOrnithoMap(hessen_map)
par(mar = opar)

heibl/rornitho documentation built on May 17, 2019, 3:22 p.m.