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...t), I didn't check see if there is already something available to convert WKT strings into some R package geometry (sp?). Does anyone have any advice, hints, code (?) for converting the following OpenGIS strings into something useful in R: POINT MULTIPOINT LINESTRING MULTILINESTRING POLYGON MULTIPOLYGON GEOMETRYCOLLECTION Jeff.

Scotland is the second feature in the UK data, so get it and split this one MULTIPOLYGON feature into individual POLYGONS scot = st_cast(the_uk$geometry[2],"POLYGON") # which is the largest polygon? which.max(st_area(scot)) [1] 1 # the first one. ok... plot(scot[[1]]) # mainland # add the rest of the islands for context, in grey, maybe to show they're outside our stu...