bcdc_preview: Get preview map from the B.C. Web Map Service

In bcgov/bcdc: Search and Retrieve Data from the BC Data Catalogue

Get preview map from the B.C. Web Map Service

Description

Note this does not return the actual map features, rather opens an image preview of the layer in a Leaflet map window

Usage

bcdc_preview(record)

Arguments

record

either a bcdc_record object (from the result of bcdc_get_record()), a character string denoting the name or ID of a resource (or the URL) or a BC Geographic Warehouse (BCGW) name. It is advised to use the permanent ID for a record or the BCGW name rather than the human-readable name to guard against future name changes of the record. If you use the human-readable name a warning will be issued once per session. You can silence these warnings altogether by setting an option: options("silence_named_get_data_warning" = TRUE) - which you can set in your .Rprofile file so the option persists across sessions.

Examples

try(
  bcdc_preview("regional-districts-legally-defined-administrative-areas-of-bc")
)

try(
  bcdc_preview("water-reservations-points")
)

# Using BCGW name
try(
  bcdc_preview("WHSE_LEGAL_ADMIN_BOUNDARIES.ABMS_REGIONAL_DISTRICTS_SP")
)

bcgov/bcdc documentation built on April 13, 2025, 2:49 p.m.