Re: [R-sig-Geo] shape file for Boston

2009-03-09 Thread Jim Burke
Alina, The zip code shapefile for the whole state is carried by census people. But census tends to be larger areas than desired. I have found local offices be more helpful because I have found the people locally that produce the maps for the upstream organizations like the state or council of gove

Re: [R-sig-Geo] overplotting on png map tile in R

2009-03-09 Thread Gabor Grothendieck
The rgdal package can read png images. See: http://finzi.psych.upenn.edu/R/Rhelp02a/archive/94605.html On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Markus Loecher wrote: > Dear R geo wizards, > while I am very happy with the kmloverlay() function from the maptools > package to create overlays from R in Goog

Re: [R-sig-Geo] overplotting on png map tile in R

2009-03-09 Thread Greg Snow
I don't know of any functions to load and display a .png file, but if you can convert it to .jpg (Imagemagick is one way) then you can read it and plot it with the rimage package. You can then use updateusr from the TeachingDemos package to change the user coordinates to match the latitude and

[R-sig-Geo] shape file for Boston

2009-03-09 Thread Alina Sheyman
Does anyone know where I can find a shapefile with zipcodes for Boston [[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

Re: [R-sig-Geo] comparing confusion matrices

2009-03-09 Thread Andrew Niccolai
Koen, Congalton and Green 1999 ("Assessing the Accuracy of Remotely Sensed Data: Principles and Practices") describes such a method which they term Margfit. This method "can be applied to “normalize” or standardize the error matrices for comparison purposes. Margfit uses an iterative proportional

[R-sig-Geo] comparing confusion matrices

2009-03-09 Thread Koen Hufkens
Dear list, I need some expert assistance on a geo-statistical question. I have two maps, first and second choice classification results. And I have two areas selected within this map. For these areas I calculated confusion matrices. However, I want to compare these matrices. I was considering a

[R-sig-Geo] Download and resampling of MODIS images (automated)

2009-03-09 Thread Hengl, T.
Hi all, I thought that this might be of interest. I have spent few days on trying to automate donwload and resampling of MODIS products (under windows machines). The instructions and a sample script is available here: http://spatial-analyst.net/wiki/index.php?title=Download_and_resampling_of_M