spain-munic-bot

🤖 Twitter bot: random municipalities of Spain 🇪🇸 with {CatastRo} posted with {rtweet} via a GitHub Action

Hi! I am a bot 🤖 that tweets a random map of buildings of Spanish municipalities, based on the works of Dominic Royé: Visualize urban growth. I run 🏃‍♀️ every 20 minutes.

Tweets by spainmunic

🏠 Buildings

A sample map!

✈️ The Journey

See here the maps I have created 🗺

📦 R packages

Core packages used in the project are:

• {CatastRo} for the buildings.
• {mapSpain} for the location of the municipalities.
• {ggplot2} for plotting,
• {rtweet} for posting,

Other packages used are {sf}, {dplyr} and another common supporting packages.

This project uses {renv} for ensuring fully reproducibility across platforms.

🙌🏻 Credits

• Based on

  • italiancomuni, by \@espinielli.

• Automation:

  • GitHub Actions as per \@espinielli’s GitHub Repo.

• sources:

  • mapSpain R package.
  • {CatastRo} for the buildings.

❔How to run it

From the command line it is enough to run the following command:

    $ Rscript R/trigger.R

This will trigger R/01_create_map.R and compose the tweet.