Mapping with R

Best viewed at: https://dataknut.github.io/mapping-with-r/

Simple (and not so simple) examples of mapping data with R

You might also like https://git.soton.ac.uk/twr1m15/la_emissions_viz which drives https://rushby.shinyapps.io/LAemissions/

data

The following example data is provided in the data folder of this repository:

• Boundary data - for Solent region (various geographies: LA, LSOA, MSOA) - Open Government Licence v3.0
• Energy - area-based statistics for domestic electricity consumption (England & Wales: LSOA, MSOA) - Open Government Licence v3.0
• Lookup table for English geographies - Open Government Licence v3.0

You link these using the relevant area level codes such as:

• Local Authority: LA Code<-> lad18cd
• LSOA: Lower Layer Super Output Area (LSOA) Code <-> LSOA11CD
• etc

Examples

rMappingExample

A simple example of mapping using R. Examples use Local Authority (LA) and Middle-layer Super Output Area (MSOA) geography and electricity consumption data (provided in data subfolder).

ONS-open-geography

An example and resources for using the ONS Open Geography portal to download geographical data and create maps using Leaflet package.

fun with cartograms

What it says on the tin

Resources

Openstreetmap for base maps (i.e. map tiles/rasters)

• Edinburgh green space as an example with sf
• Madrid supermarkets with sf
• Short term rentals in Halifax, Nova Scotia with sf

Google maps for base maps

They want you to have an API key now. Yeah nah.

tmap package - nice

• check out the bubble geom