Hi Hans, Please have a look at paragraph 2.6 (page 41) on spatial polygons in the ASDAR-book. Here you will find an example of converting a shoreline into polygons.
Henk Henk Sierdsema SOVON Vogelonderzoek Nederland / SOVON Dutch Centre for Field Ornithology Rijksstraatweg 178 6573 DG Beek-Ubbergen The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)24 6848145 fax: +31 (0)24 6848122 -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Hans-Jörg Bibiko [mailto:bib...@eva.mpg.de] Verzonden: dinsdag 3 maart 2009 17:33 Aan: R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch Onderwerp: [R-sig-Geo] SpatialLines to SpatialPolygons convertion Hi, I have a short question. Is there any workaround available which tries to convert a list of SpatialLines to a list of SpatialPolygons objects? In my case I have a list of Lines objects coming from a gshhs (shorelines) file. The list represents 8 polygons of a given xlim/ ylim. Now I'd like to convert the list into 8 polygons in order to draw them filled out. I could do it 'manually' and try close these lines heuristically but maybe there's already such a workaround available. Thanks for any hint in advance! --Hans PS The new maptools release is really nice :) Thanks! _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo