AddWaters {bfsMaps}

Add Waters to Switzerland Map

Description

Add lakes and rivers to an already existing Switzerland map. The lakes are defined in 2 categories 1 and 2, whereas category 1 contains the bigger ones, category 2 the smaller ones.
The rivers are defined in 5 categories 1:5, wheras category 1 contains the largest rivers, category 5 the smallest ones.

Usage

AddWaters(lakes = 1, rivers = 1:5, col = NULL,
          border = "lightskyblue3", lwd = 1, ...)

AddLakes(categ = 1:2, col = "lightskyblue1", border = "lightskyblue3",
         lwd = 1, ...)

AddRivers(categ = 1:5, col = "lightskyblue3", ...)

Arguments

categ

category of the lakes (1, 2) and rivers (1:5) . 1 are the bigest waters, 2, resp. 5 the smallest ones.

lakes

the category for the lakes

rivers

the category for the rivers

col

color of the lakes, defaults to "lightskyblue1"

border

bordercolor of the lakes, defaults to "lightskyblue3"

lwd

linewidth of border

...

the dots are passed to the plot command

Details

AddWaters() is a wrapper with sensible defaults. If the color is not provided it will be set to a less intense tint of the border.

Lakes are defined in the original files:

• 00_TOPO/K4_seenyyyymmdd/c_shp/k4seenyyyymmdd11_ch2007Poly.shp

• 00_TOPO/K4_seenyyyymmdd/c_shp/k4seenyyyymmdd22_ch2007Poly.shp

Rivers are defined in the files:

• 00_TOPO/K4_flusyyyymmdd/c_shp/k4flusyyyymmdd11_ch2007.shp

• 00_TOPO/K4_flusyyyymmdd/c_shp/k4flusyyyymmdd22_ch2007.shp

• 00_TOPO/K4_flusyyyymmdd/c_shp/k4flusyyyymmdd33_ch2007.shp

• 00_TOPO/K4_flusyyyymmdd/c_shp/k4flusyyyymmdd44_ch2007.shp

• 00_TOPO/K4_flusyyyymmdd/c_shp/k4flusyyyymmdd55_ch2007.shp

For accessing the meta data, we can simply use

  lake <- GetMap("see1.map")
  head(lake)

Value

None

Author(s)

Andri Signorell <[e-mail]

Examples

try({
  PlotKant()
  AddWaters(lakes=1, rivers=1, border="grey")
})

try({
  PlotKant()
  AddLakes(categ=1)      # adds the lakes of category 1 to the map
  AddRivers(categ=1:3)   # adds the rivers of category 1:3 to the map
})