Stamen maps error

[sinkovit]

Stamen map functionality used in displaying MCP recently broke. See ...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77235892/ggmap-and-get-stamenmap-return-an-error-when-plotting-a-region

https://github.com/dkahle/ggmap/issues/353

Monitor issue and modify code as described in second URL if necessary. Since this is not super time critical, may wait until the developers have a clean solution.

[sinkovit]

@monaw Hi Mona, I was able to fix the Stamen maps problem. In R studio, do the following

library(devtools)
install_github("stadiamaps/ggmap")
library(ggmap)
register_stadiamaps(key="SEE SLACK", write=TRUE)

And in compute.R, replace get_stamenmap() with get_stadiamap(). I made this change already to the dev branch. Btw, the new stadiamap server appears to be much faster!

Notes:

• After doing ggmap install, you should see the version update from 3.0.2 to 4.0.0. This is a temporary fix until the stadiamap changes are pushed into CRAN
• The API key is the one I created for our project, please use that
• Setting write=TRUE in register_stadiamaps() will save the key to your .Renviron file. Not sure how this plays with installing our tool on HubZero. If they need to manually edit .Renviron, add the line GGMAP_STADIAMAPS_API_KEY=SEE SLACK

[sinkovit]

Do not close this issue until after stadiamap changes have been pushed into the ggmap CRAN package!

That way we'll remember to update the CRAN package properly, with any other changes the ggmap folks implement.

[monaw]

we need to resolve the stadiamap license issue before this feature can be released on the hub...

[monaw]

Steven @ HUBzero says the license says we cannot share the api key (see ticket 50 and ticket 57 )