Creating an interactive globe in R
So, you want to create globe with a resolution so low that it´s hard to imagine any use cases? Here is an R script that will do just that. This script will:...
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Working with bathymetry data in R
How do you download and style bathymetry data in R? One way is using the marmap library. This script will: More on marmap here.
Downloading data from OpenStreetMap with R
Surely, it must be possible to create your own map based on data from OpenStreetMap using R? Perhaps a map with all of the restaurants in your area? This script will: #...
Accessing Google Open Buildings in R
Google has published a huge data set with buildings, found at https://sites.research.google/open-buildings/. The data is available in WKT in CSV files, so it needs some basic processing for visualization. Could I use...
Additional basemaps and WMS layers in R/Leaflet
A small collection of additional R code snippets for web maps with R/Leaflet, after the previous article Creating an interactive web map using R/Leaflet. This time, it´s all about basemaps and WMS...
Calculating distances in R
How to calculate distances in R. This script will: The resulting plot with distance to each hospital:
Connecting to APIs with R
With millions of APIs with data available, it would be a shame to miss out. How do you connect to an API and fetch data in R? This script will: Code: In...
Routing using OpenStreetMap, R and Openrouteservice
Support for GIS related operations has improved a lot in recent years in the R universe and there are a lot of libraries for GIS. In this case, I wanted to do...
Working with PostgreSQL/PostGIS in R
PostgreSQL/PostGIS is often my top pick when working with geodata in databases and I use it frequently with FME and QGIS, but until recently, not so much with R. How do you...
Creating an interactive web map using R/Leaflet
Using a web map is a flexible way of presenting your GIS project and I wanted to use R to create a Leaflet web map. This R script will: To run the...