How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
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How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
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Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
#2Cool! Curious — has anyone done something similar in Python?
Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
#3Thank you! Love R.
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#4A little underwhelming for so much work, but I guess if you already have R installed, then it's just plug and play.
Thanks for sharing.
Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
#5Why is there such a movement for making maps with R? The python ecosystem has more and better packages for making maps already. Notwithstanding that there are indeed some nice results, this new R toolchain movement towards maps feels like a waste of open source energy to me.
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#6Sometimes I hold events, and I want to put a little map on the flyer. It's a real pain to manually deal with some SVG of a larger map area, and clip it and style it to fit the space. Does anyone know of any solutions like this for this kind of problem?
Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
#7Why is there such a movement for making maps with R? The python ecosystem has more and better packages for making maps already. Notwithstanding that there are indeed some nice results, this new R toolchain movement towards maps feels like a waste of open source energy to me.
Can we, I don't know, let people enjoy programming languages they like without calling it a waste?
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#8Vaguely related, a few years ago I made a map of "how to drive from SF to NYC while passing through the minimum number of Republican-voting counties": https://github.com/louispotok/blue-road-trip
Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
#9Why is there such a movement for making maps with R? The python ecosystem has more and better packages for making maps already. Notwithstanding that there are indeed some nice results, this new R toolchain movement towards maps feels like a waste of open source energy to me.
As someone proficient with R and Python, anything data viz-wise is substantially easier to do in R/ggplot2, particularly something complicated like this post.
Most of the R packages in this post aren't that new either.
Re: How to make fancy road trip maps with R and OpenStreetMap
#10Why is there such a movement for making maps with R? The python ecosystem has more and better packages for making maps already. Notwithstanding that there are indeed some nice results, this new R toolchain movement towards maps feels like a waste of open source energy to me.
I feel like the R ecosystem was there first; but perhaps two completely separate groups of people.
Ecologists, researchers working with geological or geospatial data use R and have been using R for a long, long time. The 'old 'standard library 'maps' is decades old by now, with maps v3 now being 8 years old. maps v2 goes back to 2003, about the time of Python 2.3?
I can't even find the sources of maps v1. https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/Archive/maps/ I believe that maps v1 was for R's predecessor, S, so from the late 90s, about the time Python 1.5 came out. Was anybody even using Python then?
OP's post uses the slightly fancier tidyverse-versions of these decades-old libraries. I think it's safe to say that map-making libraries are older in R than in Python.