Coordinates and index numbers of communities in the state of Pennsylvania

Description

This data set gives the coordinates of communities in the state of Pennsylvania from the LAMSAS database, stored in the columns Longitude and Latitude. Community numbers, as they are used in the informid field in the LAMSAS database, are stored in the column idx. Community names are stored as rownames.

Usage

data(PA.coo)

Format

A dataframe with coordinates and index numbers of 67 communities.

References

Linguistic Atlas of the Middle and South Atlantic States (LAMSAS): http://us.english.uga.edu/lamsas/

RuG/L04 - software for dialectometrics and cartography: http://www.let.rug.nl/~kleiweg/L04/

See Also

PA, PA.map, mean.asp

Examples

data(PA.coo)
data(PA.map)
asp <- mean.asp(PA.map[, 2])
plot(PA.map, type = "n", asp = asp, main = "Pennsylvania, USA",
     xlab = "longitude", ylab = "latitude")
polygon(PA.map, col = "grey", border = 0)
text(PA.coo[, 1:2], labels = PA.coo[, 3])
rownames(PA.coo[order(PA.coo$idx), ])