read_urban_area: Download spatial data of urbanized areas in Brazil

In geobr: Download Official Spatial Data Sets of Brazil

Download spatial data of urbanized areas in Brazil

Description

This function reads the official data on the urban footprint of Brazilian cities in the years 2005 and 2015. Original data were generated by the Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) For more information about the methodology, see details at https://biblioteca.ibge.gov.br/visualizacao/livros/liv100639.pdf

Usage

read_urban_area(year = 2015, simplified = TRUE, showProgress = TRUE)

Arguments

year	Numeric. Year of the data in YYYY format. Defaults to 2015.
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_metro_area(), 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_concentrations(), read_weighting_area()

Examples

# Read urban footprint of Brazilian cities in an specific year
d <- read_urban_area(year=2005)

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