A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame of the city boundary of Chicago — city_boundary_spdf • pointdexter

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame of the city boundary of Chicago that can only be used with the sp package.

data("city_boundary_spdf")

Format

A SpatialPolygonsDataFrame with 1 observation on the following 4 variables:

name: CHICAGO
objectid: value of 1
shape_area: the approximate area of the polygon in square meters
shape_len: unknown

Source

This SpatialPolygonsDataFrame comes from the City of Chicago Data Portal, Boundaries - City. The file was last updated on June 30, 2017.

See also

?pointdexter::city_boundary_sf

Examples

# load necessary packages ----
library(sp)

# load necessary data ----
data("city_boundary_spdf")

# plot Chicago ----
par(mar = c(0, 0, 1, 0))

plot(city_boundary_spdf
     , main = "City of Chicago boundary"
     , col = "gray85"
     , border = "dodgerblue4")