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A stylized dataset of topographic contours for mapping (not analytical) applications. Data were aggregated, contoured, had small pieces were removed, simplified, corner cut, and simplified again. The contours were generated from Robinson, N., Regetz, J., and Guralnick, R. P. (2014). EarthEnv-DEM90: A nearly-global, void-free, multi-scale smoothed, 90m digital elevation model from fused ASTER and SRTM data. ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 87:2014, 57-67. Available at http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924271613002360.

Usage

topography

Format

sf/tibble/dataframe, with a single variable detailing the elevation in meters.

Elevation

Elevation of the contour line in meters.

geometry

a sf linestring, topographic contours.

Examples

data(topography)

library(ggplot2)
ggplot() +
 geom_sf(data = topography, aes(color = elevation)) +
 theme_minimal()