Statistics, Department of
The R Journal
Date of this Version
6-2013
Document Type
Article
Citation
The R Journal (June 2013) 5(1); Editor: Hadley Wickham
Abstract
OpenStreetMap provides freely accessible and editable geographic data. The osmar package smoothly integrates the OpenStreetMap project into the R ecosystem. The osmar package provides infrastructure to access OpenStreetMap data from different sources, to enable working with the OSM data in the familiar R idiom, and to convert the data into objects based on classes provided by existing Rpackages. This paper explains the package’s concept and shows how to use it. As an application we present a simple navigation device
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Copyright 2013, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported