New version of {maplegend} ! 📦 {maplegend} is an R package for creating, well, map legends. 🙂 This version improves the display of legends in plots and introduces two new features: a histogram legend type, and arguments to set decimal and big value separators […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

Day 03 of #30DayMapChallenge with a density choropleth and quantiles! 👏 Thanks to @Benjamin Novak's tutorial in @yan-holtz.bsky.social gallery r-graph-gallery.com/web-map-chor... 🌚 Used data from the Observatoire Statistique Tranfrontalier #rstats #dataviz #map #ggplot2 #gis

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The first major version of {mapsf} has arrived on CRAN! mapsf is a thematic mapping R package. Its goal is to be simple and lightweight while offering all the necessary features to create beautiful statistical maps. This release includes a revamped theming […] [Original post on fosstodon.org]

New package on CRAN: {valh}, an interface between R and the Valhalla API Valhalla is a routing service based on OpenStreetMap data. https://valhalla.github.io/valhalla Co-authored by @mthv #gischat #rspatial #rstats #openstreetmap

Introducing {maposm}, an R package that extracts, modifies and merges sets of layers from OpenStreetMap for cartographic purposes. On github: https://github.com/riatelab/maposm The package is not on CRAN, but it is on r-universe: https://riatelab.r-universe.dev/maposm #rstats #rspatial #gischat

A new version of {maptiles} has been released on CRAN. :rstats: 📦 You can now access the high-resolution (or retina) tiles distributed by some providers. {maptiles} is a package for downloading and composing raster tiles with R. https://github.com/riatelab/maptiles #gischat #rstats #rspatial

Hmm, there's something missing on this map... And no, it's not New Zealand :-) #gis #gischat