Easy download of asdar datasets

Posted in All Things Spatial, R on January 2nd, 2009 by Claudia Engel

If you are looking for an easy way to download all the example data used Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R, this script was recently posted on the R-sig-Geo Mailing list by one of the book’s authors, Roger Bivand. Read more »

Batch convert DMS to DD

Posted in How-Tos, Useful Scripts on December 17th, 2008 by Claudia Engel

These are instructions for Mac.

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Download OpenStreet maps as shapefiles

Posted in Data, Maps on November 11th, 2008 by Claudia Engel

There are now two sites that offer download of from OpenStreet in varying formats, including shapefiles and GPS: CloudMade and Geofabrik (for Europe).

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