bounding_box: Calculate Bounding Box

In trinker/mapit: mapit: Functions related to mapping and geocoding.

Description

Caclulate a bounding box for a center point given a set of coordinates.

Usage

bounding_box(lat, lon, dist, in.miles = TRUE)

Arguments

lat	The latitude of the center point.
lon	The longitude of the center point.
dist	The distance from the center point.
in.miles	logical. If TRUE uses miles as the units of dist. If FALSE uses kilometers.

Value

Returns a matrix with max/min latitude/longitude values.

References

http://janmatuschek.de/LatitudeLongitudeBoundingCoordinates

Examples

bounding_box(38.8977, 77.0366, 1)

trinker/mapit documentation built on May 31, 2019, 8:52 p.m.