Re: [R] plotting points to a map

2012-07-18 Thread Barry Rowlingson
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Gary Dong wrote: > For your second question: > 1) by relative long and lat, I mean distances to the city center from > south-north and east-west directions. > 2) I know the coordinate of the reference point. The problem here is that going 10 miles north along a

Re: [R] plotting points to a map

2012-07-18 Thread Gary Dong
Thanks, Sara. For your first question: Geographic Coordinate System: GCS_North_American_1983_HARN Projected Coordinate System: NAD_1983_HARN_StatePlane_Oregon_North_FIPS_3601_Feet_Intl I have imported the shp file in R by read.shaplefiles(). For your second question: 1) by relative long and la

Re: [R] plotting points to a map

2012-07-18 Thread Sarah Goslee
Hi, On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 2:11 PM, Gary Dong wrote: > Dear R users, > > I have a city map in shape file (polygon). I also have some points that I > hope to plot them to the city map. What projection is the shape file in? Have you successfully imported it into R yet? This page has a nice overv