zumbov2/rswissmaps

Plot and Save Customised Thematic Swiss Maps with R

Hi there! 👋 

I'm a data scientist with a background in political science and economics, and I'm interested in a lot of things related to R, data visualisation, geospatial data, etc. On this page you can find some of my spare time projects, including:

R Packages

• deeplr
• swissparl
• colorfindr
• colorizer
• RSwissMaps
• findR

Coding Projects

• Animated political map of Switzerland
• Rayshading Adelboden
• swissgd
• Swiss Football Transfers
• ...

rswissmaps's Issues

City quarters

The large cities in Switzerland are subdivided in quarters, there even exist shapefiles. Last time I checked they weren't quite up to date, but I've made some effort to integrate them and to create a unified shapefile of Switzerland subdivided into municipalities + city quarters. Happy to share if you're interested.

List & get Swiss geodata functions

Handy package thank you! Do you happen to have some non-exported functions that download and process the Swiss statistical office's geodata that is used by the package (saved into data/)?

I would suggest to have such low level functions that return the geodata in a geospatial format (i.e shapefiles) for a given year, resolution, administrative boundaries, ...
With package such as sf that would open then the possibility to all kind of spatial operations: reproject, join, intersect, ...

I have an interest for such functions and I think I could work on that. Question would be then whether it should be part of RSwissMaps or be in a separate package (on which RSwissMaps could rely and depend on).

Integrate municipality mutations?

I have prepared a package that computes municipality lookup tables between two points in time, from BfS data: https://github.com/krlmlr/SwissCommunes. Maybe we could integrate this here, or even compare the mutation data with the shape files by overlaying the maps from consecutive years?