View source: R/gisco_get_postalcodes.R
gisco_get_postalcodes | R Documentation |
Get postal codes points of the EU, EFTA and candidate countries.
gisco_get_postalcodes(
year = "2020",
country = NULL,
cache_dir = NULL,
update_cache = FALSE,
verbose = FALSE
)
year |
Year of reference. Currently only |
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 |
cache_dir |
A path to a cache directory. See About caching. |
update_cache |
A logical whether to update cache. Default is |
verbose |
Logical, displays information. Useful for debugging,
default is |
The postal code point dataset shows the location of postal codes, NUTS codes and the Degree of Urbanisation classification across the EU, EFTA and candidate countries from a variety of sources. Its primary purpose is to create correspondence tables for the NUTS classification (EC) 1059/2003 as part of the Tercet Regulation (EU) 2017/2391
A POINT
sf
object on EPSG:4326.
The dataset is released under the CC-BY-SA-4.0 licence and requires the following attribution whenever used:
(c) European Union - GISCO, 2021, postal code point dataset, Licence CC-BY-SA 4.0 available at https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata//administrative-units/postal-codes.
Shapefiles provided in ETRS89 (EPSG:4258).
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.
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata//administrative-units/postal-codes.
Other political:
gisco_bulk_download()
,
gisco_get_coastallines()
,
gisco_get_countries()
,
gisco_get_lau()
,
gisco_get_nuts()
,
gisco_get_units()
,
gisco_get_urban_audit()
# Heavy-weight download!
## Not run:
pc_bel <- gisco_get_postalcodes(country = "BE")
if (!is.null(pc_bel)) {
library(ggplot2)
ggplot(pc_bel) +
geom_sf(color = "gold") +
theme_bw() +
labs(
title = "Postcodes of Belgium",
subtitle = "2020",
caption = paste("(c) European Union - GISCO, 2021,",
"postal code point dataset",
"Licence CC-BY-SA 4.0",
sep = "\n"
)
)
}
## End(Not run)
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