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ropensci / slopes

Package to calculate slopes of roads, rivers and trajectories
https://docs.ropensci.org/slopes/
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Idea: optionally auto download elevation data if none provided #6

Closed Robinlovelace closed 4 years ago

Robinlovelace commented 4 years ago

E.g. using https://github.com/jhollist/elevatr

mpadge commented 4 years ago

See this comment in elevatr, from which i can now confirm that the procedure can be automated. I have a prototype function in osmdata to get tile IDs, but it's not quite right. Auto-download was not possible when i developed that, but now is, so the whole procedure can be easily automated.