mapBliss

Create beautiful maps of your adventures with Leaflet in R.

If you want to learn how you can contribute to this project, feel free to contact me via my website.

Do you see have a feature idea that you think would make mapBliss better? Feel free to open an issue and make a feature request!

If you are interested in making star maps, check out starBliss

Table of Contents

• Introduction

• Cronology and Updates

• Installing This Package

• Dependencies

• Some Example Visuals

Introduction

This package is based functions I created for creating print-quality souvenir maps like the ones you can find on Atlas.co.

For some background on how this package came to be and for updates. Feel free to check out my blogs on the topic here, or see the relevant links in Cronology and Updates

Cronology and Updates

1. I reverse-engineered Atlas.co (well, some of it)

2. Using the MapBox API with Leaflet

3. Plotting Flight Paths on Leaflet Maps

4. Packaging My Route Map Code! Introducing mapBliss.

5. Control Individual Label Positions In mapBliss With _flex() Functions

6. Adding Frame and Custom Title Support To mapBliss

Installing This Package

devtools::install_github("benyamindsmith/mapBliss")

Dependencies

This package depends on the following packages:

• dplyr
• purrr
• magrittr
• tibble
• rlang
• sf
• geosphere
• tidygeocoder
• leaflet
• osrm
• webshot
• htmlwidgets
• magick
• shiny

Some Example Visuals

The following are just some screen shots of the images that can be produced. It is possible to create a map and save it as .svg file for a sharper image.