inspire: Generate INSPIRE IDs

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Generate INSPIRE IDs

Description

Given pairs of coordinates, generates their INSPIRE grid representation. Given INSPIRE identifiers, can also extract the X and Y coordinates.

An INSPIRE ID contains information about the CRS, cell size and the ETRS89-LAEA coordinates of the south-west corner of the grid cell in its format.

CRS3035RES{cellsize}mN{y}E{x} # long format
{cellsize}N{y}E{x}         # short format

The short format always uses meters while the short formats aggregates cell sizes greater or equal to 1000m to km.

Usage

z22_inspire_generate(coords, res = NULL, short = FALSE, llc = FALSE)

z22_inspire_extract(inspire, as = c("df", "sf"), meta = FALSE)

Arguments

coords	A list, matrix, or dataframe where the X and Y coordinates are either in the columns "x" and "y" or in the first and second column position, respectively. Column names are converted to lowercase. Can also be a sf/sfc object in which case the coordinates are extracted using st_coordinates.
res	Resolution of the grid. Can be "100m", "250m", "1km", "5km", "10km", or "100km". If NULL, tries to guess the resolution from the provided coordinates.
short	If TRUE, generates short INSPIRE IDs. Defaults to FALSE.
llc	Do the coordinates in coords represent the lower-left corners of their cells? If FALSE, subtracts each coordinate by half of res. If TRUE, leaves them as-is. Defaults to FALSE, i.e., treat coordinates as cell centroids.
inspire	A vector of INSPIRE IDs. Can be either short or long format.
as	Specifies the output class. Must be one of "df" or "sf". If "df" (default), returns flat coordinates in a dataframe. If "sf" (and the sf package is installed), converts the coordinates to an sf tibble.
meta	Whether to include parsed CRS and resolution in the output. If FALSE, output contains only coordinates. If TRUE, also contains columns "crs" and "res".

Details

To remain fast even for huge grid datasets, the function is just a very simple sprintf wrapper that performs no input checks. To produce valid INSPIRE identifiers, make sure to transform your data to ETRS89-LAEA (e.g. using st_transform(..., 3035)). You should also make sure that the coordinates are the south-west corner of existing INSPIRE grid cells.

Value

z22_inspire_generate returns a character vector containing the INSPIRE identifiers. z22_inspire_extract returns a dataframe or sfc object containing the points extracted from the INSPIRE identifiers. Note that the returned coordinates are always the centers of the grid cells as opposed to the south-west corners.

Examples

library(dplyr, warn.conflicts = FALSE)

# Generate IDs from a dataframe
coords <- tibble(x = c(4334150, 4334250), y = c(2684050, 2684050))
identical(z22_inspire_extract(z22_inspire_generate(coords))[c("x", "y")], coords)

# Extract coordinates from short ID strings
z22_inspire_extract("100mN34000E44000")

# Generate IDs from an sf dataframe
if (requireNamespace("sf", quietly = TRUE)) {
  coords <- sf::st_as_sf(coords, coords = c("x", "y"), crs = 3035)
  z22_inspire_generate(coords)
}

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