Greetings I have a large number of long-lat locations dispersed over the US and need to identify which US county that each point is located in (or nearest to). After reading the past posts and Roger's book, I have been able to use the overlay function to identify the appropriate counties for the set of locations with long-lats lying within or on a polygon boundary. However, due to longlat precision errors (I am assuming), some of the points lie outside all of my shapefile's county polygon boundaries.
Is there an R function similar to "overlay" that I could use to find which county polygon is closest to each of my longlat points that do not lie within the shapefile's polygons? I have spent quite a bit of time searching and browsing past list discussions and can seem to find my answer. My apologies if I have missed an obvious answer. Joe **************Huge savings on HDTVs from Dell.com! (http://pr.atwola.com/promoclk/100126575x1221836042x1201399880/aol?redir=http:%2F%2Fad.doubleclick.ne t%2Fclk%3B215073686%3B37034322%3Bb) [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
