streets {SnowData}R Documentation

Streets Dataset

Description

A dataset containing the start-points and end-points of streets in 1854 Soho, London

Usage

data(streets)

Format

A data frame with 5 rows and 317 columns:

id

Observation-level identifier

dist

Length of street section in metres

start_point

Street start-point identifier

end_point

Street end-point identifier

start_coord_east

X-coordinate in Ordnance Survey National Grid (OSGB36) projection of the start-point

start_coord_north

Y-coordinate in Ordnance Survey National Grid (OSGB36) projection of the start-point

end_coord_east

X-coordinate in Ordnance Survey National Grid (OSGB36) projection of the end-point

end_coord_north

Y-coordinate in Ordnance Survey National Grid (OSGB36) projection of the end-point

Source

John Snow's 1854 cholera outbreak map, georeferenced and processed by Niamh Mimnagh. Original map and data can be found in the public domain at: Snow, J. (1855). On the Mode of Communication of Cholera. (Online) Available: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Snow-cholera-map-1.jpg


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