On 21 Feb 2007, Russell Senior wrote: > > I am interested in making a random sample from a uniform distribution > of points over the surface of the earth, using the WGS84 ellipsoid as > a model for the earth. I know how to do this for a sphere, but would > like to do better. I can supply random numbers, want latitude > longitude pairs out. > > Can anyone point me at a solution? Thanks very much. >
http://www.csit.fsu.edu/~burkardt/f_src/random_data/random_data.html looks promising, untried. > > -- Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
