read_metro_area: Download spatial data of official metropolitan areas in...

In geobr: Download Official Spatial Data Sets of Brazil

Download spatial data of official metropolitan areas in Brazil

Description

The function returns the shapes of municipalities grouped by their respective metro areas. Metropolitan areas are created by each state in Brazil. The data set includes the municipalities that belong to all metropolitan areas in the country according to state legislation in each year. Original data were generated by Institute of Geography. Data at scale 1:250,000, using Geodetic reference system "SIRGAS2000" and CRS(4674).

Usage

read_metro_area(year = 2018, simplified = TRUE, showProgress = TRUE)

Arguments

year	Numeric. Year of the data in YYYY format. Defaults to 2018.
simplified	Logic FALSE or TRUE, indicating whether the function should return the data set with 'original' spatial resolution or a data set with 'simplified' geometry. Defaults to TRUE. For spatial analysis and statistics users should set simplified = FALSE. Borders have been simplified by removing vertices of borders using ⁠st_simplify{sf}⁠ preserving topology with a dTolerance of 100.
showProgress	Logical. Defaults to TRUE display progress bar.

Value

An ⁠"sf" "data.frame"⁠ object

See Also

Other area functions: read_amazon(), read_biomes(), read_capitals(), read_comparable_areas(), read_country(), read_disaster_risk_area(), read_health_facilities(), read_health_region(), read_immediate_region(), read_indigenous_land(), read_intermediate_region(), read_meso_region(), read_micro_region(), read_municipal_seat(), read_municipality(), read_neighborhood(), read_pop_arrangements(), read_region(), read_schools(), read_semiarid(), read_state(), read_statistical_grid(), read_urban_area(), read_urban_concentrations(), read_weighting_area()

Examples

# Read all official metropolitan areas for a given year
  m <- read_metro_area(2005)

  m <- read_metro_area(2018)

geobr documentation built on Sept. 21, 2023, 9:07 a.m.