geobounds: Download Administrative Boundary Data from 'geoBoundaries'
Source:R/geobounds-package.R
geobounds-package.RdProvides 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), e0231866. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231866 .
See also
gb_get() downloads individual country boundaries, the
ADM wrappers select one level and gb_get_world() downloads
global composite boundaries. gb_get_metadata() retrieves boundary
metadata and gb_set_cache_dir() configures archive caching.
See vignette("geobounds", package = "geobounds") for mapping workflows
and vignette("metadata", package = "geobounds") for provenance
and licensing.
Author
Maintainer: Diego Hernangómez diego.hernangomezherrero@gmail.com (ORCID) [copyright holder]
Authors:
Diego Hernangómez diego.hernangomezherrero@gmail.com (ORCID) [copyright holder]
Other contributors:
William & Mary geoLab (ROR) (for the geoBoundaries project) [data contributor]