Stamen migration to Stadia Maps (+ add new styles)

[ianthetechie]

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Description

Reflects that Stamen map tiles are now hosted by Stadia Maps. The old endpoints will start showing warning tiles sometime in September before being shut off on October 31, 2023.

Closes #350.

[ianthetechie]

Just a quick bump on this, as we plan to start brownouts toward the end of September to let people know to switch over. It would be great to have ggmap updated.

[ianthetechie]

Bump @dkahle?

[dkahle]

This is great, thanks @ianthetechie. Is there a reason why you removed get_stamenmap() completely instead of just adding get_stadiamap()? I would think it preferable to simply make the latter in addition to the former, .Deprecated() it (if that's still relevant at this point, which it appears to be), and when the former stops working .Defunct() it and point to get_stadiamap(). Thoughts?

[ianthetechie]

Good question @dkahle. To be completely honest this is the first time I've written anything in R in like 8 years, so I don't know what the generally accepted practices are around deprecation in the R community. Since it's already a breaking change (API keys are required so that's a semantically breaking change) and the Stamen function would only make sense with a subset of styles, I thought it was easier to just remove it as that's what both OpenLayers and Leaflet Providers opted for, but I'm open to your suggestions on this. Feel free to suggest / make edits directly (I think those are enabled).

[jimr1603]

I installed Ian's version to give it a try after finding the brownout in my pipeline.

Works smooth enough once I've got the API key, and the auto messages got me on the right pages to get an API key quickly.

Unfortunately it looks like Stadia is inheriting the brownout at this stage. The following snippet has brownout tiles:

get_stadiamap(bbox = c(left = -1.56, bottom = 53.78, right = -1.5,top = 53.82),
              zoom = 14) %>%
  ggmap()

For backwards-compatibility I'd suggest leaving in get_stamen but replacing the function with a message to change to the new function.

[ianthetechie]

Unfortunately it looks like Stadia is inheriting the brownout at this stage. The following snippet has brownout tiles:

@jimr1603 Quick clarification request: did you add an API key? We still allow unauthenticated requests during the brownout, but you will have to invoke register_stadiamaps("YOUR-API-KEY") to keep using the tiles after October 31st.

[jimr1603]

I did, but I'll see if this still happens after the computer's had a couple of reboot cycles, later today.

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Unfortunately it looks like Stadia is inheriting the brownout at this stage. The following snippet has brownout tiles:

@jimr1603 https://github.com/jimr1603 Quick clarification request: did you add an API key? We still allow unauthenticated requests during the brownout, but you will have to invoke register_stadiamaps("YOUR-API-KEY") to keep using the tiles after October 31st.

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[jimr1603]

Tested it just now and can't replicate. Maybe the session needed restarting after loading the API key the first time, maybe I did something wrong 🤷

[ianthetechie]

Just a quick bump on this @dkahle. The total shutoff date is this week for the old Stamen URLs.

[dkahle]

Got it. Thanks @ianthetechie!