mdsumner commented 6 years ago

Name

I'm a bit uneasy about having "ozmaps" as the package and "ozmap" as the functions, that sometimes causes problems - but it matches maps::map nicely.

Context

There is eechidna, oz, bomrang, grattan, Census2016, ALA4R and heims.

Who else is working on this?

create sources in bowerbird form, publish those with bowerbird (but don't use bb)
hardcode the links for download, and point to bowerbird as an automatable set up

Do we have ozmaps, and ozmapsdata as analogous to maps/mapdata?

mdsumner commented 6 years ago

Is there a sensible guideline for how to build a national map package?

mdsumner commented 6 years ago

low res, small file size, data objects, of (a) country boundary (b) state boundary (c) lga (d) electoral boundaries
ability to use only the country outline, or that combined with any of the others.
ability to subset any region out, to focus just on small parts of the country
functions to update the maps as needed in the future.

oz::oz(states = TRUE, add = FALSE)  ## plot Australia with or without states, add to current plot or start afresh

oz::vic()  ## there's also a function for each individual state and nt(), though not for ACT

That covers a) and b) mostly for the very simple. The next level up is provided by rnaturalearth, which will be more up to date:

rn_oz <- rnaturalearth::ne_states(country = "australia")  ## requires rnaturalearthhires pkg

That object is 0.5Mb which is reasonable.

[x] make ozmaps::ozmap() call oz::oz() by default, pass through states and add arguments
[x] make ozmaps::ozmap_states (data) and call (or install the data of) rnaturalearth::ne_states(country = "australia")
[ ] make ozmaps::ozmap_electoral() and ozmap_lga() with installed, simplified versions of the ABS data
[ ] make ozmaps::ozmap_electoral_2016_data() to download and read the very high-resolution shapefiles as per my readme
[ ] make ozmaps::ozmap_data() to return any of the above in sf format

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