geobounds: Download Administrative Boundary Data from 'geoBoundaries'

Provides tools to download individual country boundaries and global composite boundaries from 'geoBoundaries' https://www.geoboundaries.org/ across multiple administrative ('ADM') levels. Returns boundaries as 'sf' objects for mapping and spatial analysis. Runfola et al. (2020) doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231866 describe the underlying database.

References

Runfola et al. (2020) "geoBoundaries: A global database of political administrative boundaries." PLOS ONE, 15(4), 1–9. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231866 .

See also

Useful links:

• https://dieghernan.github.io/geobounds/

• https://github.com/dieghernan/geobounds

• Report bugs at https://github.com/dieghernan/geobounds/issues

Author

Maintainer: Diego Hernangómez diego.hernangomezherrero@gmail.com (ORCID) [copyright holder]

Authors:

• Diego Hernangómez diego.hernangomezherrero@gmail.com (ORCID) [copyright holder]

Other contributors:

• William and Mary geoLab (ROR) (for the geoBoundaries project) [copyright holder]