Changelog

Source: NEWS.md

geobounds (development version)

Breaking change

Functions for downloading data have been renamed to follow the convention object_verb() (see https://devguide.ropensci.org/pkg_building.html):

• get_gb() -> gb_get().
• ?get_gb_adm family -> ?gb_get_adm family.
• get_gb_cgaz() -> gb_get_cgaz().
• get_gb_meta() -> gb_get_metadata().

Additionally, the metadata argument has been removed. Use gb_get_metadata() instead.

Other changes

• gb_get_adm5() added.
• gb_get_max_adm_lvl() added.
• All functions:
  • Source files: Use of the .zip/.shp version of the dataset instead of .geojson/.gpkg. This implies that the geojsonsf dependency in Imports is removed as it is not needed any more. As a consequence cached files with previous versions of the package are not used any more.
  • Improve detection for Antarctica and Kosovo.
  • All functions return a MULTIPOLYGON.
  • Function fails gracefully when the country file is not available (with neither errors nor warnings).
  • httr2::req_retry() implemented to avoid timeout / transient errors.
• gb_get*(): In all functions now the country argument recognize mixed types (e.g. gb_get(country = c("Germany", "USA")) would work).
• gb_get_cgaz() get the latest data available on the repo https://github.com/wmgeolab/geoBoundaries/tree/main/releaseData.
• Add DOI.

geobounds 0.0.1

• Initial release.