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hrbrmstr / albersusa

Tools, shapefiles & data to work with an "AlbersUSA" composite projection in R
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Keep this or… #7

Open hrbrmstr opened 7 years ago

hrbrmstr commented 7 years ago

abandon it and support https://github.com/pdil/usmap @hadley @rdinter ?

FWIW I have a new pkg ready that only uses sf (halfway done porting the ++gd independent elide-ing code to sf @rdinter added, too) so we cld keep both.

hadley commented 7 years ago

Combining the two efforts seems reasonable to me

hadley commented 7 years ago

Would be good to ensure similar interface to https://github.com/ropensci/USAboundaries too

hadley commented 7 years ago

Or maybe integrate all three somehow?

rdinter commented 7 years ago

It looks like the the usmap package has the same shapefiles as albersusa since it references Moving The Earth (well, Alaska & Hawaii) With R and performs the same elide functions for Alaska and Hawaii in its source code. It looks like it could benefit from a lot of the albersusa functionality, for example there does not appear to be any way to change the map's projection since the R objects used for plotting have been fortified to data.frames with the albers equal area projection as the SpatialPolygon's current projection. I think it'd be great to integrate all 3 packages referenced in some way.

Since I'm new to package development, I don't know if it's easier to jump aboard the usmap train or implement some of the usmap functions to albersusa. But I'm willing to help out.

bhaskarvk commented 7 years ago

https://github.com/rveciana/d3-composite-projections seems to have some really nice composite projections. If you do end up reworking/merging the R pkgs, please consider supporting the above mentioned projections too.

dblodgett-usgs commented 6 years ago

@hrbrmstr - what package are you referring to that is sf-only and has an elide capability?