OpenStreetMap provides freely accessible and editable geographic data. The osmar package smoothly integrates the OpenStreetMap project into the R ecosystem. The osmar package provides infrastructure to access OpenStreetMap data from different sources, to enable working with the OSM data in the familiar R idiom, and to convert the data into objects based on classes provided by existing R packages. This paper explains the package’s concept and shows how to use it. As an application we present a simple navigation device.
osmar, osmar, OpenStreetMap, RgoogleMaps, ggmap, sp, igraph, geosphere, Rcpp
Spatial, WebTechnologies, gR, Graphics, HighPerformanceComputing, NumericalMathematics, Optimization, SpatioTemporal
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Eugster & Schlesinger, "The R Journal: osmar: OpenStreetMap and R", The R Journal, 2013
BibTeX citation
@article{RJ-2013-005,
author = {Eugster, Manuel J. A. and Schlesinger, Thomas},
title = {The R Journal: osmar: OpenStreetMap and R},
journal = {The R Journal},
year = {2013},
note = {https://doi.org/10.32614/RJ-2013-005},
doi = {10.32614/RJ-2013-005},
volume = {5},
issue = {1},
issn = {2073-4859},
pages = {53-63}
}