In francisbarton/jogger: Retrieve Area Boundaries and Data from the ONS Open Geography Portal

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jogger has evolved into [boundr](https://github.com/francisbarton/boundr)

Superseded

I have wanted to refactor this package for ages and I finally got round to it. jogger is very fragile and needed lots of hacks. It won't work very often nowadays and I don't recommend you install it. I was quite proud of it for a good while, though!

The schema branch I created here then became the basis for boundr - which is itself still in development but from a much more stable base and with a more logical structure (I think).

Retrieve area boundaries and data from the ONS Open Geography Portal

The main function of this package is to download area lookups and boundaries (in GeoJSON format) using the ONS Open Geography API, for all sub-areas - at a specified level - within a specified area. The main script will return a data frame with the sub-area geometry column, as an sf object ready to be visualised as a map. It's initially just for areas within England and Wales, with a hope to add Scottish geographies at a later date. And currently just for the following area levels: LSOA, MSOA, Ward, LAD/LTLA, UTLA/CTY, CAUTH, RGN [subject to change]

Installation

You probably want boundr instead.

remotes::install_github("francisbarton/jogger")

Examples

library(jogger)
library(dplyr, quietly = TRUE)
library(tmap)

tmap::tmap_mode("plot")

geo_get("wd", "Swindon", "lad") %>% 
  tmap::tm_shape() +
  tmap::tm_borders()

geo_get("msoa", "Swansea", "lad", return_centroids = TRUE) %>%
  head(5)

geo_get("lsoa", "Zetland", "ward", shape_fields = TRUE)

geo_get(bounds_level = "lad",
  within = "Gloucestershire",
  within_level = "cty",
  return_style = "simple",
  return_boundaries = FALSE)

Return a bare API query ready to be run or checked externally:

build_api_query(
  # currently you just have to know which ref to use - see build_api_query.R
  ref = 4, 
  where_level = "cauth20nm",
  where = "Greater Manchester",
  sr = 27700
)

Contributing

Suggestions are welcome, preferably posted as an issue on GitHub. Contributions as pull requests are also welcome.

You are also welcome to email me with comments or ideas. I'd be glad of suggestions for improvement, or extra features.

Improvements to the naming of key functions and their parameters especially welcome. Contact details are on my GitHub profile.

This project has a Contributor Code of Conduct:

Code of Conduct

Please note that the jogger project is released with a Contributor Code of Conduct. By contributing to this project, you agree to abide by its terms.

News

See NEWS.md for version notes

Licences

The code in this repo is MIT licensed.

The data that the code helps you retrieve is issued under a variety of licences, including:

• the Open Government Licence v3.0

Licensing statement as stipulated by the ONS:

• Source: Office for National Statistics licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0
• Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2021.

francisbarton/jogger documentation built on Nov. 18, 2022, 2:46 p.m.