[R] Aligning aerial photographs and maps

2006-11-28 Thread F.Tusell
I have read in Paul Murrell's book R Graphics about how to use a bitmap as background for a plot (page 107). Also, I routinely use function read.shape() in package maptools to read maps in shapefile format. Now, I would like to overlay an aerial photograph in .jpg format and a map. I think I could

Re: [R] Aligning aerial photographs and maps

2006-11-28 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:39:16AM +0100, F.Tusell a écrit : I would like to overlay an aerial photograph in .jpg format and a map. I think I could do the alignment manually for each case, but wonder if there is a better, automated way. I notice that the .jpg file has a companion .jgw file

Re: [R] Aligning aerial photographs and maps

2006-11-28 Thread Roger Bivand
On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, F.Tusell wrote: I have read in Paul Murrell's book R Graphics about how to use a bitmap as background for a plot (page 107). Also, I routinely use function read.shape() in package maptools to read maps in shapefile format. Now, I would like to overlay an aerial photograph