gisco_get_lau: Get GISCO urban areas 'sf' polygons, points and lines

In giscoR: Download Map Data from GISCO API - Eurostat

Get GISCO urban areas sf polygons, points and lines

Description

gisco_get_communes() and gisco_get_lau() download shapes of Local Urban Areas, that correspond roughly with towns and cities.

Usage

gisco_get_communes(
  year = "2016",
  epsg = "4326",
  cache = TRUE,
  update_cache = FALSE,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE,
  spatialtype = "RG",
  country = NULL
)

gisco_get_lau(
  year = "2016",
  epsg = "4326",
  cache = TRUE,
  update_cache = FALSE,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE,
  country = NULL,
  gisco_id = NULL
)

Arguments

year	Release year of the file. See Details.
epsg	projection of the map: 4-digit EPSG code. One of: "4258": ETRS89 "4326": WGS84 "3035": ETRS89 / ETRS-LAEA "3857": Pseudo-Mercator
cache	A logical whether to do caching. Default is TRUE. See About caching.
update_cache	A logical whether to update cache. Default is FALSE. When set to TRUE it would force a fresh download of the source .geojson file.
cache_dir	A path to a cache directory. See About caching.
verbose	Logical, displays information. Useful for debugging, default is FALSE.
spatialtype	Type of geometry to be returned: "BN": Boundaries - LINESTRING object. "COASTL": coastlines - LINESTRING object. "INLAND": inland boundaries - LINESTRING object. "LB": Labels - POINT object. "RG": Regions - MULTIPOLYGON/POLYGON object.
country	Optional. A character vector of country codes. It could be either a vector of country names, a vector of ISO3 country codes or a vector of Eurostat country codes. Mixed types (as c("Turkey","US","FRA")) would not work. See also countrycode::countrycode().
gisco_id	Optional. A character vector of GISCO_ID LAU values.

Details

Valid years for eacg function are:

• gisco_get_communes: one of '2001', '2004', '2006', '2008', '2010', '2013' or '2016'.

• gisco_get_lau: one of '2011', '2012', '2013', '2014', '2015', '2016', '2017', '2018', '2019', '2020'.

Value

A sf object specified by spatialtype. In the case of gisco_get_lau(), a POLYGON object.

About caching

You can set your cache_dir with gisco_set_cache_dir().

Sometimes cached files may be corrupt. On that case, try re-downloading the data setting update_cache = TRUE.

If you experience any problem on download, try to download the corresponding .geojson file by any other method and save it on your cache_dir. Use the option verbose = TRUE for debugging the API query.

For a complete list of files available check gisco_db.

Note

Please check the download and usage provisions on gisco_attributions().

See Also

Other political: gisco_bulk_download(), gisco_get_coastallines(), gisco_get_countries(), gisco_get_nuts(), gisco_get_postalcodes(), gisco_get_units(), gisco_get_urban_audit()

Examples

ire_lau <- gisco_get_communes(spatialtype = "LB", country = "Ireland")

if (!is.null(ire_lau)) {
  library(ggplot2)

  ggplot(ire_lau) +
    geom_sf(shape = 21, col = "#009A44", size = 0.5) +
    labs(
      title = "Communes in Ireland",
      subtitle = "Year 2016",
      caption = gisco_attributions()
    ) +
    theme_void() +
    theme(text = element_text(
      colour = "#009A44",
      family = "serif", face = "bold"
    ))
}

giscoR documentation built on Nov. 2, 2023, 5:07 p.m.