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Installation
geofi
can be installed from CRAN using
# install from CRAN install.packages("geofi") # Install development version from GitHub remotes::install_github("ropengov/geofi")
# Let's first create a function that checks if the suggested # packages are available check_namespaces <- function(pkgs){ return(all(unlist(sapply(pkgs, requireNamespace,quietly = TRUE)))) } apiacc <- geofi::check_api_access() pkginst <- check_namespaces(c("sf","dplyr","patchwork","ggplot2")) apiacc_pkginst <- all(apiacc,pkginst)
Manuel Gimonds Intro to GIS and Spatial Analysis and especially it's appendixes provide a good introduction to working with spatial data in R.
From the book above, have a look at chapter Coordinate Systems in R first.
When using spatial data in R it necessary to have all data in same coordinate reference system (CRS). You can check the CRS of you sf
-object with sf::st_crs()
-function. All the data you can obtain using geofi
is transformed automatically into EPSG:3067
. Most of spatial data providers in Finland provide their data in the same CRS.
library(geofi) library(sf) library(dplyr) muni <- get_municipalities() point <- municipality_central_localities crs <- st_crs(muni) crs$input
However, sometimes data is not correctly projected and you have to reproject it using st_transform
. Web maps like Google maps or Leaflet use WGS 1984 geographic (long/lat) coordinate system which is fine with added interactive feature, but should be avoided when plotting data on maps elsewhere. This is especially the case with large northern countries like Finland. To demonstrate the effect lets reproject the municipality data to WGS 1984 (usin EPSG code equivalent 4326
) and plot it side to side with EPSG:3067
muni_4326 <- st_transform(muni, "EPSG:4326") crs <- st_crs(muni_4326) crs$input library(ggplot2) p1 <- ggplot(muni %>% st_union()) + geom_sf() + labs(subtitle = "EPSG:3067") p2 <- ggplot(muni_4326 %>% st_union()) + geom_sf() + labs(subtitle = "EPSG:4326") library(patchwork) wrap_plots(list(p1,p2), nrow = 1) + plot_annotation(title = "Map of Finland in two different CRS")
You can see the that northern Finland is larger on the right and the grid below is different.
To compute the area of polygons (municipality in this case), ordering them by size and plotting largest/smalles 10 can be as this.
# compute area muni$area <- sf::st_area(muni) # largest muni %>% arrange(desc(area)) %>% slice(1:10) %>% ggplot() + geom_sf() + geom_sf_label(aes(label = name_fi)) + labs(title = "largest 10") # smallest muni %>% arrange(area) %>% slice(1:10) %>% ggplot() + geom_sf() + geom_sf_label(aes(label = name_fi)) + labs(title = "smallest 10")
You can subset data your plotting by subsetting your data in conventional filtering codes/names, or you can use geometric operations such as bounding box or intersection.
Lets imagine that we need a more detailed view of the metropolitan area of the Greater Helsinki that consist of the following municipalities: Espoo, Helsinki, Vantaa, Hyvinkää, Järvenpää, Kauniainen, Kerava, Kirkkonummi, Mäntsälä, Nurmijärvi, Pornainen, Sipoo, Tuusula and Vihti. You can subset the data just using the names of municipalities.
greater_helsinki <- c('Espoo','Helsinki','Vantaa','Hyvinkää', 'Järvenpää','Kauniainen','Kerava','Kirkkonummi', 'Mäntsälä','Nurmijärvi','Pornainen','Sipoo','Tuusula','Vihti') greater_helsinki_polygon <- muni %>% filter(municipality_name_fi %in% greater_helsinki) ggplot(greater_helsinki_polygon) + geom_sf() + geom_sf(data = point %>% filter(teksti %in% toupper(greater_helsinki)))
First, let's create bounding box from greater Helsinki polygons.
bounding_box_polygon <- st_as_sfc(st_bbox(muni %>% filter(municipality_name_fi %in% greater_helsinki))) ggplot(st_intersection(bounding_box_polygon, muni)) + geom_sf() + geom_sf(data = point %>% filter(teksti %in% toupper(greater_helsinki)))
Then, let's use the point data (municipality central localities) to create the bounding box
bounding_box_point <- st_as_sfc(st_bbox(point %>% filter(teksti %in% toupper(greater_helsinki)))) ggplot(st_intersection(bounding_box_point, muni)) + geom_sf() + geom_sf(data = point %>% filter(teksti %in% toupper(greater_helsinki)))
Neighboring or intersecting objects can be found using st_intersection()
in following manner where we plot Helsinki and it's neighbors.
helsinki <- muni %>% filter(municipality_name_fi == "Helsinki") neigbour_codes <- st_intersection(muni,helsinki) %>% pull(municipality_code) ggplot(muni %>% filter(municipality_code %in% neigbour_codes)) + geom_sf() + geom_sf_label(aes(label = municipality_name_fi))
Often there is need to create alternative regional breakdown to existing ones and aggregating data accordingly. First we need to subset the required members and then dissolve them using st_union()
. Below we classify municipalities in three equal size categories based on area, dissolve them and plot.
Lets first plot the smallest category as a single multipolygon.
muni$area_class <- cut_number(x = as.numeric(muni$area), n = 3) muni %>% filter(area_class == levels(muni$area_class)[1]) %>% st_union() %>% ggplot() + geom_sf()
To union all three into same data you can use group_by
and summarise
muni %>% group_by(area_class) %>% summarise() %>% ggplot() + geom_sf(aes(fill = area_class))
The following operarions derive from Marko Kallio's course at CSC in February 2020 Spatial data analysis with R.
geofi
contains data on municipality central locations (geofi::municipality_central_localities
). Instead of those you may need the actual geographical centers ie. centroids of a polygon that can be computed using st_centroid
and plotted with ggplot.
muni_centroids <- st_centroid(muni) ggplot() + geom_sf(data = muni) + geom_sf(data = muni_centroids, color = "blue") + # plot also the municipality_central_localities geom_sf(data = municipality_central_localities, color = "red")
Buffers can be useful, for instance, calculating the share of buildings that are within certain radius from central localities. That example is not explained here, but we only show how to create 15km radius around polygon centroids.
muni_centroids_buffer <- muni_centroids %>% st_buffer(dist = 15000) ggplot() + geom_sf(data = muni) + geom_sf(data = muni_centroids_buffer) + geom_sf(data = muni_centroids, shape = 3)
You can download predefined grids from Statistics Finland using get_statistical_grid
and get_population_grid()
-functions in geofi
-package. These data contains not just the geographical shape, but also attribute data on population etc. within the grid cells.
However, you may need to create your own custom grid, for instance to aggregate your own point data, which can be created with st_make_grid()
function.
As describes by Marko Kallio in Spatial data analysis with R.
It creates a regular grid over bounding box of an 'sf' object. Can be given a certain cell size, or number of cells in x and y directions. 'what' tells the function what kind of regular grid is wanted (polygons, corners, centers). Fishnets of lines rather than polygons can be created simply by casting the polygons as "LINESTRING"s. The resulting polygon grid is an 'sfc' object, so it needs to be made 'sf' in order for us to add the ID-attribute.
For this example we pick northern Muonio municipality and create a custom 2km*4km grid on top of it. Afterward we could aggregate the number of reindeer for each grid cell if we would have the data.
muonio <- muni %>% filter(municipality_name_fi == "Muonio") grid_sf <- st_make_grid(muonio, cellsize = c(2000,4000), what="polygons") %>% st_sf() grid_clip <- st_intersection(grid_sf, muonio) grid_clip$rank <- 1:nrow(grid_clip) ggplot(grid_clip) + geom_sf(aes(fill = rank), color = alpha("white", 1/3), size = 3) + scale_fill_viridis_c() + theme_minimal()
In mathematics, a Voronoi diagram is a partition of a plane into regions close to each of a given set of objects. Source: Wikipedia: Voronoi diagram
Perhaps not the most useful operation, but worth taking a look as readily available in sf
as function st_voronoi
. In this case, it creates a layer of polygons that are closest to each municipality central locality.
library(geofi) library(sf) muni_voronoi <- municipality_central_localities %>% st_union() %>% st_voronoi() %>% st_cast() %>% st_sf() %>% st_intersection(st_union(muni)) %>% mutate(rnk = 1:nrow(.)) ggplot(muni_voronoi) + geom_sf(aes(fill = rnk)) + geom_sf(data = municipality_central_localities, shape = 4) + scale_fill_fermenter(palette = "YlGnBu") + theme_minimal() + theme(axis.text = element_blank(), axis.title = element_blank(), panel.grid = element_blank(), legend.position = "none")
Calculating distances is certainly at the core of geospatial analysis. In this exercise we are interested on calculating distances between municipality central localities in Finland. As expected, we are talking great circle distances here, ie. as the crow flies type of distances.
You can calculate distance matrices using st_distance()
-function from sf-package that computes distances between pairs of geometries. geofi
-package contains an internal data municipality_central_localities
that we use to calculate distances between points.
First we need to subset the data and replace original municipality name column (teksti
) with better from latest municipality key.
kunta <- geofi::municipality_central_localities %>% select(teksti,kuntatunnus) %>% mutate(kuntatunnus = as.integer(kuntatunnus)) %>% select(-teksti) %>% left_join(geofi::municipality_key_2022 %>% select(municipality_code, municipality_name_fi), by = c("kuntatunnus" = "municipality_code")) %>% rename(teksti = municipality_name_fi) kunta
Let's aim at a data structure as below with both municipality name and code both from origin and destination.
| origin_name | origin_code | destination_name | destination_code | dist_m | | ------------ | ----------- | ---------------- | ---------------- | ------ | | Helsinki | 91 | Espoo | 92 | 15000 | | Vantaa | 93 | Espoo | 92 | 18000 | | Espoo | 92 | Espoo | 92 | 0 |
To get there lets create a for loop that calculates distance matrices from each municipality to all municipalities, assign each data to a list and finally bind the data frames into a single data.
d_list <- list() kuntadatan_teksti_ja_kuntatunnus <- sf::st_drop_geometry(kunta) %>% select(teksti,kuntatunnus) for (i in 1:nrow(kunta)){ dist_tmp <- sf::st_distance(x = kunta[i,], y = kunta) tibble(origin_name = kunta[i,]$teksti, origin_code = kunta[i,]$kuntatunnus) %>% bind_cols(kuntadatan_teksti_ja_kuntatunnus %>% rename(destination_name = teksti, destination_code = kuntatunnus)) %>% mutate(dist = dist_tmp[1,]) -> d_list[[i]] } kunta_dist <- do.call("bind_rows", d_list) %>% mutate(dist = as.numeric(dist)) head(kunta_dist)
Finally we can draw two plots to verify our results. First let's draw a bar plot of 20 municipality central localities nearest to Helsinki
ggplot(kunta_dist %>% filter(origin_name == "Helsinki") %>% arrange(dist) %>% slice(1:20), aes(x = dist, y = reorder(destination_name, dist), label = round(dist))) + geom_col() + geom_text(aes(x = 1000), color = "white", hjust = 0) + labs(title = "Nearest 20 municipality localities to Helsinki", x = "distance in meters")
Then, lets find the municipality central locality that is nearest to the center of Finland.
# We firt need the country map as a single polygon geofi::get_municipalities() %>% sf::st_union() %>% # then we need to compute the centroid of that polygon sf::st_centroid() -> fin_centroid # The let's find the nearest neighbour with distance <- st_distance(x = fin_centroid, y = kunta) kuntadatan_teksti_ja_kuntatunnus %>% mutate(dist = as.numeric(distance)) %>% arrange(dist) -> closest_to_center head(closest_to_center)
And finally lets draw a bar plot of 20 furthest localities
furthest20 <- kunta_dist %>% filter(origin_name == closest_to_center[1,]$teksti) %>% arrange(desc(dist)) %>% slice(1:20) ggplot(furthest20, aes(x = dist, y = reorder(destination_name, dist), label = round(dist))) + geom_col() + geom_text(aes(x = 10000), color = "white", hjust = 0) + labs(title = paste("Furthest 20 municipality localities \nfrom the most central locality of ", closest_to_center[1,]$teksti), x = "distance in meters")
And at very last, we need to show those distances also on a map.
sf_lahto <- kunta %>% filter(teksti %in% closest_to_center[1,]$teksti) %>% select(teksti) sf_paate <- kunta %>% filter(teksti %in% furthest20$destination_name) %>% select(teksti) triplst <- list() for (i in 1:nrow(sf_paate)){ triplst[[i]] <- rbind( sf_lahto, sf_paate[i,] ) %>% summarize(m = mean(row_number()),do_union=FALSE) %>% st_cast("LINESTRING") } trips <- do.call("rbind", triplst) ggplot() + geom_sf(data = muni %>% st_union(), alpha = .3) + geom_sf(data = trips, color = "dim grey") + geom_sf_label(data = sf_lahto, aes(label = teksti)) + geom_sf_text(data = sf_paate, aes(label = teksti))
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