gisco_attributions: Attribution for administrative and statistical GISCO data

In giscoR: Download Map Data from GISCO API - Eurostat

Attribution for administrative and statistical GISCO data

Description

Get the legal text to be used for administrative and statistical data downloaded from GISCO, see section Copyright information.

For other datasets you may abide to the Eurostat's general copyright notice and licence policy.

Usage

gisco_attributions(lang = "en", copyright = FALSE)

Arguments

lang	character. Language (two-letter ISO code). See countrycode::codelist and Details.
copyright	logical TRUE/FALSE. Whether to display the copyright notice or not on the console.

Details

Current languages supported are:

• "en": English.

• "da": Danish.

• "de": German.

• "es": Spanish.

• "fi": Finish.

• "fr": French.

• "no": Norwegian.

• "sv": Swedish.

Please consider contributing if you spot any mistake or want to add a new language.

Value

A string with the attribution to be used.

Copyright information

These provisions described in this section apply to administrative and statistical data, provided by the following functions:

Administrative units

• gisco_get_communes()

• gisco_get_countries()

• gisco_get_postal_codes()

Statistical units

• gisco_get_census()

• gisco_get_coastal_lines()

• gisco_get_lau()

• gisco_get_nuts()

• gisco_get_urban_audit()

Copyright Notice

When data downloaded from GISCO is used in any printed or electronic publication, in addition to any other provisions applicable to the whole Eurostat website, data source will have to be acknowledged in the legend of the map and in the introductory page of the publication with the following copyright notice:

• EN: © EuroGeographics for the administrative boundaries.

• FR: © EuroGeographics pour les limites administratives.

• DE: © EuroGeographics bezüglich der Verwaltungsgrenzen.

For publications in languages other than English, French or German, the translation of the copyright notice in the language of the publication shall be used.

If you intend to use the data commercially, please contact EuroGeographics for information regarding their licence agreements.

Examples

gisco_attributions()

gisco_attributions(lang = "es", copyright = TRUE)

gisco_attributions(lang = "XXX")

# Get list of codes from countrycodes
library(dplyr)

countrycode::codelist |>
  select(country.name.en, iso2c)

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