[R] from long/lat to UTM

[(Ted Harding)]

On 10-Mar-05 Greg Snow wrote:
> [...]
> I found a shapefile of time zones at: 
> http://openmap.bbn.com/data/shape/timezone/ 
> 
> A google search on the keywords timezone & shapefile finds a 
> few other possibilities. 
> 
>>> b) a function which, for each name in the list, returns
>>>    the TZ name
> 
> The "maptools" package can read in the above shapefile and 
> convert it to a list of polygons and the "sgeostat" has an
> "in.polygon" function to see if a point is in a given polygon.
> 
> The following code worked for me:
> [....]

Many thanks, Greg. That looks just the job, and I'll look
into it.

All best wishes,
Ted.


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