Re: [R-sig-Geo] re. Creating random (but believable) geographies

2009-12-28 Thread Darren Norris
...snip That's an idea, but someone *might* recognise their state boundaries, even shifted into the Atlantic and maybe even rotated and given a silly name. I just like the idea of creating totally fictitious regions! That's another interesting problem - creating fake names for regions. I sup

[R-sig-Geo] re. Creating random (but believable) geographies

2009-12-28 Thread Darren Norris
how about simply using what already exists? For example, Brazil [data freely available (but may need to cite the source which may defeat what you are trying to achieve?) at: ftp://geoftp.ibge.gov.br/mapas/malhas_digitais/municipio_2005/E500/Proj_Geografica/ArcView_shp/ ] has three sub-administ

Re: [R-sig-Geo] GDAL Error - .grd not recognised as a supported file

2009-08-25 Thread Darren Norris
hh.no -Original Message- From: r-sig-geo-boun...@stat.math.ethz.ch on behalf of Barry Rowlingson Sent: Mon 24.08.2009 16:58 To: Darren Norris Cc: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch Subject: Re: [R-sig-Geo] GDAL Error - .grd not recognised as a supported file On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Barry Rowli

Re: [R-sig-Geo] GDAL Error - .grd not recognised as a supported file

2009-08-24 Thread Darren Norris
it's not possible to open with packages available in R? If so I'll try the geotiff and work with a subsample . Darren Barry Rowlingson wrote: On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 3:29 PM, Darren Norris wrote: Can anyone suggest the simplest way to get this data into R (I'm avoidi

[R-sig-Geo] GDAL Error - .grd not recognised as a supported file

2009-08-24 Thread Darren Norris
Hi all, I'm trying to work with the "ETOPO1 Global Relief Model", downloaded from http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/mgg/global/global.html . I chose the netCDF format option, which from the readme should be most appropriate for GDAL users. Snip from discussions - http://n2.nabble.com/flip-raster-td18860