Dear Albrecht, on ESRI's site you should be able to download a shapefile with details down to NUTS2 for the area you're interested in. Check http://www.esri.com/data/download/basemap/how_to_download.html out.
Please also consider posting such questions on the R-sig-Geo mailing list (submissions to [EMAIL PROTECTED]). HTH Giovanni Giovanni Millo Research Dept., Assicurazioni Generali SpA Via Machiavelli 4, 34131 Trieste (Italy) tel. +39 040 671184 fax +39 040 671160 ########## Original message: ############ Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2007 08:35:39 -0600 From: "hadley wickham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [R] ESRI Shapefile for EU-25 To: "Albrecht Kauffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: r-help@r-project.org Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 http://www.openstreetmap.org/ might be one place to start. Hadley On Nov 13, 2007 6:30 AM, Albrecht Kauffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > who knows how to get an ESRI Shapefile for the NUTS-2 Regions of the > enlarged European Union? Particularly I want to draw maps of Germany, > Poland, Czech Republik, Hungary and Austria. I've found Shapefiles for > the US, Russia and other countries elsewhere in the web, but for > Europe it seems really difficult. > > With many thanks for any hint > Albrecht > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide > http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > Ai sensi del D.Lgs. 196/2003 si precisa che le informazi...{{dropped:13}} ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.