An R package of compiled World Bank shapefiles for world maps.
Some journals (e.g. PLoS) require base map data that has an unambiguous CC-BY-4.0 license.
At the same time, many analysts want shapefiles with up-to-date territory boundaries (provded as world as an sf object), ISO3 codes (provided as iso3 in world) to link in country data, and county barycentres for plotting points (provided as mid in world).
The underlying data here is taken from World Bank data, which does have a CC-BY license. Disputed territories such as Western Sahara are included.
This can be installed using devtools with
devtools::install_github('petedodd/wbmapdata')
or similar from within R.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
