CountriesBorders
This package provides utilities for extracting coordinates of countries borders in latitude/longitude.
It uses the natural earth database for getting the borders coordinates.
Example Usage
using CountriesBorders
# Extract the coordinates of the borders of Italy and Spain, as Domain from Meshes. This function is exported by CountriesBorders
dmn = extract_countries("italy; spain")
# Creates two variables containint the lat/lon coordinates of Rome, Madrid and Paris. SimpleLatLon is exported by CountriesBorders
rome = SimpleLatLon(41.9, 12.49)
paris = SimpleLatLon(48.864, 2.349)
madrid = SimpleLatLon(40.416, -3.703)
# Verify that rome and madrid are included in the domain
rome in dmn # Returns true
madrid in dmn # Returns true
paris in dmn # Returns false as we only extracted italy and spain
See the docstring of extract_countries
(and its extended help) for more details, or check the example notebook within the notebooks
folder. A static version of the notebook is also available at this link