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trashbirdecology / bbsAssistant

An R package for downloading and handling data and information from the North American Breeding Bird Survey.
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Basic maps (visualizations) of raw data and/or results #87

Open trashbirdecology opened 4 years ago

trashbirdecology commented 4 years ago

Users have requested that basic visualization functions be provided.

This issue was submitted as a task for the 2019 Google Code In

We seek help for creating basic visualization functions for depicting general summary statistics for individual species onto spatial maps (e.g. heat maps similar to this example). For example, a spatial map comprising absolute occurrences (e.g., species A is present or not present at a location-binary) or relative abundances (e.g., a relative heatmap of Species A 'abundance).

Further, we wish to provide the opportunity for the user map basic statistics at multiple spatial scales. For example, mapping at the U.S. state level, at the U.S. county level, or at regional levels (e.g., Bird Conservation Regions).

We are open to suggestions of which spatial projections to use, and which source maps for U.S. and Canadian state and county-level maps (e.g., using Ggmap vs. a spatial data package within the bbsAssistant package).

Example of a heat map

trashbirdecology commented 4 years ago

I recommend we use R package usmaps to generate spatial figures, as they use the US Census boundaries and FIPS .