esp_get_countries_siane: Countries of the World - SIANE

In mapSpain: Administrative Boundaries of Spain

Countries of the World - SIANE

Description

This dataset contains the administrative boundaries at country level of the world.

The data included in this cartographic database do not imply any opinion of the IGN regarding its legal status.

Usage

esp_get_countries_siane(
  year = Sys.Date(),
  epsg = 4258,
  cache = TRUE,
  update_cache = FALSE,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  verbose = FALSE,
  country = NULL
)

Arguments

year	character string or number. Release year, it must be in formats YYYY (assuming end of year) or YYYY-MM-DD. Historical information starts as of 2005.
epsg	character string or number. Projection of the map: 4-digit EPSG code. One of: "4258": ETRS89 "4326": WGS84. "3035": ETRS89 / ETRS-LAEA. "3857": Pseudo-Mercator.
cache	logical. Whether to do caching. Default is TRUE. See Caching strategies section in esp_set_cache_dir().
update_cache	logical. Should the cached file be refreshed? Default is FALSE. When set to TRUE, it will force a new download.
cache_dir	character string. A path to a cache directory. See Caching strategies section in esp_set_cache_dir().
verbose	logical. If TRUE displays informational messages.
country	character vector of country codes. It can be either a vector of country names, a vector of ISO3 country codes or a vector of ISO2 country codes. See also countrycode::countrycode().

Value

A sf object.

Source

CartoBase ANE provided by Instituto Geografico Nacional (IGN), http://www.ign.es/web/ign/portal. Years available are 2005 up to today.

Copyright: https://centrodedescargas.cnig.es/CentroDescargas/cartobase-ane

It's necessary to always acknowledge authorship using the following formulas:

1. When the original digital product is not modified or altered, it can be expressed in one of the following ways:

   • CartoBase ANE 2006-2024 CC-BY 4.0 ign.es

   • CartoBase ANE 2006-2024 CC-BY 4.0 Instituto Geográfico Nacional

2. When a new product is generated:

• Obra derivada de CartoBase ANE 2006-2024 CC-BY 4.0 ign.es

Data distributed via a custom CDN, see https://github.com/rOpenSpain/mapSpain/tree/sianedata.

See Also

giscoR::gisco_get_countries().

Other datasets representing political borders: esp_get_capimun(), esp_get_ccaa(), esp_get_ccaa_siane(), esp_get_comarca(), esp_get_gridmap, esp_get_munic(), esp_get_munic_siane(), esp_get_nuts(), esp_get_prov(), esp_get_prov_siane(), esp_get_simpl, esp_get_spain(), esp_get_spain_siane(), esp_siane_bulk_download()

Political borders from CartoBase ANE: esp_get_capimun(), esp_get_ccaa_siane(), esp_get_munic_siane(), esp_get_prov_siane(), esp_get_spain_siane(), esp_siane_bulk_download()

Examples

cntries <- esp_get_countries_siane()

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(cntries) +
  geom_sf()

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