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Potential map alternatives? #17
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we could involve Andy here, he'd probably be interested ;) |
Aha, yes feel free to include me in discussion of what you need. I've just upgraded the dev version of rnaturalearth to the most recent Natural Earth layers (which now have labelling fields in 21 languages that may be useful). rnaturalearth along with the companion packages rnaturalearthdata and rnaturalearthhires provides access to predownloaded R objects so may be useful if you want something offline. |
Cool @andysouth ! =D @zkamvar here's an abuse of power.. could you pick up the revamping of |
Maps are difficult. Leaflet is nice because it's interactive, but if the internet connection is poor, or the user has reached the access limit (which can certainly happen for exploratory analysis), then leaflet and/or googlemaps will fall short. Two options may exist:
https://github.com/ropensci/rnaturalearth uses the rnaturalearth API for scalable lineart.
Alternatively, we could embed shapefiles for a region of interest inside of a RECON deployer and use the sp package.
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