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A processed station metadata table used internally by the JP MLIT adapter. Coordinates from the official MLIT station pages are preferred when available. Coordinates from the supplied metadata CSV are used as a fallback.

Usage

data(jp_mlit_meta)

Format

A tibble/data.frame with one row per station:

station_id

MLIT station identifier (character).

station_name

English station name (character).

river

English river-system name (character).

lat

Selected latitude in WGS84 decimal degrees (double).

lon

Selected longitude in WGS84 decimal degrees (double).

area

Drainage area in square kilometres, if available (double).

altitude

Gauge-zero elevation in metres, if available (double).

station_name_original

Original Japanese station name (character).

lat_website

Latitude obtained from the official MLIT station page (double).

lon_website

Longitude obtained from the official MLIT station page (double).

coordinate_source

Source used for lat and lon. Either "MLIT website" or "MLIT metadata CSV" (character).

Source

Japan Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT).