coastpaleo {birdring}

coordinates of the palearctic coastline

Description

coordinates of the palearctic coastline used by the function draw.map. The coordinates were downloaded from the sources indicated below and then cleaned by hand from too small details

Usage

data(coastpaleo)

Format

A data frame with 25042 observations on the following 5 variables.

x

a numeric vector of longitude

y

a numeric vector of latitude

name

name of the island

entry

degree of detail to be entered in the map

kategorie

a factor with levels i m s

Source

http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coast/getcoast.html

References

http://rimmer.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/coast/getcoast.html

Examples

data(coastpaleo)
head(coastpaleo)