R help - Dec 2010 - Drawing Maps of detailed Australian regions

Hi all,
 
I'm trying to draw a bubble plot over a map -- where the map shows local
government areas (LGA) in Australia (or other structures under the Australian
Standard Geographical Classification), but am not sure where I can find the data
to plot such maps (e.g. draw the state of Northern Territory but also showing
LGA divisions).
 
Any help will be greatly appreciated, apologies if this is a simple question --
this is the first time I'm trying to draw a map in R :).
 
Cheers
Kev
 
Kevin Wang 
Senior Advisor, Health and Human Services Practice 
Government Advisory Services

KPMG 
10 Shelley Street 
Sydney  NSW  2000  Australia

Tel     +61 2 9335 8282 
Fax     +61 2 9335 7001

kevinwang at kpmg.com.au


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On Tue, Dec 14, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Wang, Kevin (SYD)
<kevinwang at kpmg.com.au> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to draw a bubble plot over a map -- where the map shows
local government areas (LGA) in Australia (or other structures under the
Australian Standard Geographical Classification), but am not sure where I can
find the data to plot such maps (e.g. draw the state of Northern Territory but
also showing LGA divisions).
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated, apologies if this is a simple
question -- this is the first time I'm trying to draw a map in R :).
>
 A second's googling leads me to an aussie gov site with downloadable
shapefiles:

http://www.abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/abs at
.nsf/DetailsPage/1259.0.30.001July%202010?OpenDocument

shapefiles can be read in R using the rgdal package. Get that, get
'sp', get 'maptools' - get mapping!

 Any other problems, head over to the r-sig-geo mailing list!

Barry

Please consider posting to R-sig-geo at 
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo , where maybe someone will
be able to point you to a data source.

Roger


Wang, Kevin (SYD) wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
>  
> I'm trying to draw a bubble plot over a map -- where the map shows
local
> government areas (LGA) in Australia (or other structures under the
> Australian Standard Geographical Classification), but am not sure where I
> can find the data to plot such maps (e.g. draw the state of Northern
> Territory but also showing LGA divisions).
>  
> Any help will be greatly appreciated, apologies if this is a simple
> question -- this is the first time I'm trying to draw a map in R :).
>  
> Cheers
> Kev
>  
> Kevin Wang 
> Senior Advisor, Health and Human Services Practice 
> Government Advisory Services
> 
> KPMG 
> 10 Shelley Street 
> Sydney  NSW  2000  Australia
> 
> Tel     +61 2 9335 8282 
> Fax     +61 2 9335 7001
> 
> kevinwang at kpmg.com.au
> 
> 
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