crss {enmSdmX}

Coordinate reference systems (CRSs) and nicknames

Description

A table of commonly-used coordinate reference systems, their nicknames, and WKT2 (well-known text) strings

Usage

data(crss)

Format

An object of class data.frame. This is a table with "named" coordinate referenbce systems and their well-known-text (WKT2) representation. It can be used as-is, or with getCRS to quickly get a WKT for a particular CRS. The fields are as:

• long: "Long" name of the CRS

• short1 and short2: "Short" names of the CRS

• region: Region for which CRS is fit

• projected: Is the CRS projected or not?

• projectionGeometry: Type of projection (NA, 'cylindrical', 'conic', or 'planar')

• datum: Datum

• type: Either 'CRS' or 'data'. The former are proper CRSs, and the latter are those used by popular datasets.

• wkt2: WKT2 string.

• notes: Notes.

Examples

data(crss)
getCRS('North America Albers', nice = TRUE)