Dear Helpers, usually I try to find the answers on my own, but this one beated me. I have to use the package Geneland which requires coordinates in Lambert projection. I have latitude and longitude (please copy to an .txt and read.table() ) X Y 3458231 5544356 3458263 5544301 3459143 5543274 3459205 5543209 3475184 5594707 3475215 5594842 3475381 5593977 3475397 5594442 3475428 5593959 3475441 5593989 3475766 5594891 3475770 5594318 3476000 5594992 3476001 5594722 3476004 5594804 3476004 5594811 3476018 5594090 3476032 5594038 3476035 5595077 3476053 5595027 3476055 5594986 3476057 5593827 3476059 5595031 3476078 5595063 3476091 5595050 When i try to use the function mapproject() i get "NA"s for some points require("Geneland") plot(coordinates,type="n",xlab="Lon",ylab="Lat",asp=1) points(coordinates,col=2) map(resol=0,add=TRUE) coordinates # convert to Lambert mapproj.res <- mapproject(x=coordinates[,1], y=coordinates[,2], projection="lambert", param=apply(unique(coordinates),2,mean)) coord.lamb <- cbind(mapproj.res$x,mapproj.res$y) If anyone could explain me why this happens and hopefully tell me how to solve it. Thanks a lot in advance Tobias -- Tobias Erik Reiners Justus Liebig University IFZ - Department of Animal Ecology Heinrich-Buff-Ring 26-32 D-35392 Giessen Germany www.uni-giessen.de/cms/fbz/fb08/biologie/tsz/tieroekologie/mitarbeiter/diplomanden-innen/tobias-erik-reiners