cartographer: Turn Place Names into Map Data

A tool for easily matching spatial data when you have a list of place/region names. You might have a data frame that came from a spreadsheet tracking some data by suburb or state. This package can convert it into a spatial data frame ready for plotting. The actual map data is provided by other packages (or your own code).

Package details

AuthorCarl Suster [aut, cre] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7021-9380>), Western Sydney Local Health District, NSW Health [cph] (2023-2025)
MaintainerCarl Suster <carl.suster@sydney.edu.au>
LicenseMIT + file LICENSE
Version0.2.2
URL https://github.com/cidm-ph/cartographer https://cidm-ph.github.io/cartographer/
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("cartographer")

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cartographer documentation built on March 19, 2026, 5:07 p.m.