There are shapefiles for Europe (and other places) at:
http://www.vdstech.com/map_data.htm (there are 16 polygons withing the one for
Germany, is that enough detail). You can read and plot the shapefiles using
the maptools package.
hope this helps,
Greg Snow, Ph.D.
Statistical Data Center, LD
dear R-tists,
i want to graph information for the German Federal States (Bundeslaender) using
the maps package. unfortunately there is no maps for the German Bundeslaender.
does anyone have an idea / a source where to get map data that can be used in
the maps package that graphs structures belo
