Re: [R-sig-Geo] Timezone boundaries (for adding to world map)?

2009-02-25 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Roger Bivand wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Martin Maechler wrote: "RB" == Roger Bivand on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:55:52 +0100 (CET) writes: RB> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Greg Snow wrote: >> There is a shapefile (works well with maptools and sp packages) with a >> wo

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Timezone boundaries (for adding to world map)?

2009-02-25 Thread Roger Bivand
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Martin Maechler wrote: "RB" == Roger Bivand on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:55:52 +0100 (CET) writes: RB> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Greg Snow wrote: >> There is a shapefile (works well with maptools and sp packages) with a >> world map and time zone information at: >> h

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Timezone boundaries (for adding to world map)?

2009-02-24 Thread Martin Maechler
> "RB" == Roger Bivand > on Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:55:52 +0100 (CET) writes: RB> On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Greg Snow wrote: >> There is a shapefile (works well with maptools and sp packages) with a >> world map and time zone information at: >> http://openmap.bbn.com/data/sha

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Timezone boundaries (for adding to world map)?

2009-02-20 Thread Roger Bivand
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Greg Snow wrote: There is a shapefile (works well with maptools and sp packages) with a world map and time zone information at: http://openmap.bbn.com/data/shape/timezone/ It has the info needed to color the countries or parts of countries based on time zone, but does no

Re: [R-sig-Geo] Timezone boundaries (for adding to world map)?

2009-02-18 Thread Greg Snow
Maechler > Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2009 11:02 AM > To: r-sig-geo@stat.math.ethz.ch > Cc: maech...@stat.math.ethz.ch > Subject: [R-sig-Geo] Timezone boundaries (for adding to world map)? > > Dear R - Mapping specialists, > > for a prospective publication on using date

[R-sig-Geo] Timezone boundaries (for adding to world map)?

2009-02-18 Thread Martin Maechler
Dear R - Mapping specialists, for a prospective publication on using date/times etc in R, we are looking for a way to draw a world map additionally with the "timezone stripes". Thanks to Roger Bivand, it was easy to get to the world map: I've used this http://spatial.nhh.no/R/etc/world_map_int