gisco_get_ports: Ports dataset

In giscoR: Download Map Data from GISCO API - Eurostat

Ports dataset

Description

This dataset includes the location of over 2,440 Pan European ports. The ports are identified following the UN LOCODE list.

Usage

gisco_get_ports(
  year = c(2013, 2009),
  country = NULL,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  update_cache = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Arguments

year	character string or number. Release year of the file. One of 2013, 2009.
country	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. See also countrycode::countrycode().
cache_dir	character string. A path to a cache directory. See Caching strategies section in gisco_set_cache_dir().
update_cache	logical. Should the cached file be refreshed?. Default is FALSE. When set to TRUE it would force a new download.
verbose	logical. If TRUE displays informational messages.

Details

Dataset includes objects in EPSG:4326.

gisco_get_ports() adds a new field CNTR_ISO2 to the original data identifying the country of the port.

Value

A sf object.

Source

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/transport-networks.

Copyright: https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata.

See Also

Other transport networks datasets: gisco_get_airports()

Examples

library(sf)

ports <- gisco_get_ports(2013)
coast <- giscoR::gisco_coastal_lines

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

  ggplot(coast) +
    geom_sf(fill = "grey10", color = "grey20") +
    geom_sf(
      data = ports, color = "#6bb857",
      size = 0.2, alpha = 0.25
    ) +
    theme_void() +
    theme(
      plot.background = element_rect(fill = "black"),
      text = element_text(color = "white"),
      panel.grid = element_blank(),
      plot.title = element_text(face = "bold", hjust = 0.5),
      plot.subtitle = element_text(face = "italic", hjust = 0.5)
    ) +
    labs(
      title = "Ports Worldwide", subtitle = "Year 2013",
      caption = "Source: Eurostat, Ports 2013 dataset."
    ) +
    coord_sf(crs = "ESRI:54030")
}

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