gBoundingPoly: bounding box polygon function

In townleym/mSpatial: Some Convenience Functions building on the rGeos library

Description

This function returns a bounding box polygon whose extent is some multiple of the extent of a container polygon. It's most useful as an input to other reducing operations.

Usage

gBoundingPoly(container, tolerance = 1.5)

Arguments

container	The single polygon to whose extent the reference polygons will be included
tolerance	The multiple by which the container extent will be expanded (default = 1.5)

Details

Note: all inputs should be of class sp::SpatialPolygons|Points

Examples

gBoundingPoly(drivetime, tolerance = 1.25)

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