SimpleCountriesEEZ {MazamaSpatialUtils}

Simplified spatial dataset of EEZ/country combined boundaries.

Description

SimpleCountriesEEZ is a simplified world borders dataset with a 200 mile coastal buffer corresponding to Exclusive Economic Zones, suitable for quick spatial searches. This dataset is distributed with the package and is used by default in getCountry(), getCountryCode() and getCountryName().

Usage

SimpleCountriesEEZ

Format

A simple features data frame with 319 records and 5 columns of data.

Details

This dataset is equivalent to EEZCountries but with fewer columns of data.

See Also

convertEEZCountries

This dataset was generated on 2022-11-03 by running:

library(MazamaSpatialUtils)
setSpatialDataDir("~/Data/Spatial_0.8")

convertEEZCountries()

loadSpatialData("EEZCountries_05")

SimpleCountriesEEZ <- EEZCountries_05[,c("countryCode", "countryName", "polygonID")]
save(SimpleCountriesEEZ, file = "data/SimpleCountriesEEZ.rda")