Offline plotting of map coordinates on static maps of Google - r

History: Extracted raster data from the static Google map png, loaded it on the R device through ggimage.
library (png)
library (ggmap)
rasterArray <- readPNG ("My.png")
x = c (40.702147,40.718217,40.711614)
y = c (-74.012318,-74.015794,-73.998284)
myData <- data.frame (x, y)
print (ggimage (rasterArray, fullpage = TRUE, coord_equal = FALSE)
+ geom_point (aes (x = x, y = y), data = myData, colour = I("green"),
size = I(5), fill = NA))
I did run dput on the rasterArray but the output is of 20 MBs, can't post here.
BTW, this is the URL of that static map:
Question: For plotting "GPS coordinates" on the R device containing the map in pixels, do I need to scale the data.frame?
I saw this page: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~varel/rdatasets/Langren1644.html
Do I need to do scaling the way they have shown here?
If yes, then what else other than the man page of scale function do I need to understand to get this done?
Am I barking at the wrong tree?

I think your mistake was the following:
Trying to plot geographic data on an image, where that image doesn't have any awareness of the map coordinates
Possibly transposing your latitude and longitudes in the data frame
Here is how you should do it instead, in two steps:
Get the map with get_map() and save it to disk using save()
Plot the data with ggmap()
First, get the map.
library (ggmap)
# Read map from google maps and save data to file
mapImageData <- get_googlemap(
c(lon=-74.0087986666667, lat=40.7106593333333),
zoom=15
)
save(mapImageData, file="savedMap.rda")
Then, in a new session:
# Start a new session (well, clear the workspace, to be honest)
rm(list=ls())
# Load the saved file
load(file="savedMap.rda")
# Set up some data
myData <- data.frame(
lat = c (40.702147, 40.718217, 40.711614),
lon = c (-74.012318, -74.015794, -73.998284)
)
# Plot
ggmap(mapImageData) +
geom_point(aes(x=lon, y=lat), data=myData, colour="red", size=5)

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Exporting a contoured Kernel density estimation plot to raster or shapefile format

I'm trying to perform Kernel density estimation in R using some GPS data that I have. My aim is to create a contoured output with each line representing 10% of the KDE. From here i want to import the output (as a shapefile or raster) into either QGIS or arcmap so I can overlay the output on top of existing environmental layers.
So far i have used AdehabitatHR to create the following output using the below code:
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xyzv <- as.image.SpatialGridDataFrame(vud)
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Aside from being able to remove the colour, this is how i wish the output to appear (or near to). However i am struggling to figure out how i can export this as either a shapefile or raster? Any suggestions would be gratefully received.
With the amt package this should be relatively straightforward:
library(adehabitatHR)
library(sf)
library(amt)
data("puechabonsp")
relocs <- puechabonsp$relocs
hr <- as.data.frame(relocs) %>% make_track(X, Y, name = Name) %>%
hr_kde(trast = raster(amt::bbox(., buffer = 2000), res = 50)) %>%
hr_isopleths(level = seq(0.05, 0.95, 0.1))
# Use the sf package to write a shape file, or any other supported format
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Trying to plot in tmap shapefile with attribute

I am trying to work with municipality data in Norway, and I'm totally new to QGIS, shapefiles and plotting this in R. I download the municipalities from here:
Administrative enheter kommuner / Administrative units municipalities
Reproducible files are here:
Joanna's github
I have downloaded QGIS, so I can open the GEOJson file there and convert it to a shapefile. I am able to do this, and read the data into R:
library(sf)
test=st_read("C:/municipality_shape.shp")
head(test)
I have on my own given the different municipalities different values/ranks that I call faktor, and I have stored this classification in a dataframe that I call df_new. I wish to merge this "classification" on to my "test" object above, and wish to plot the map with the classification attribute onto the map:
test33=merge(test, df_new[,c("Kommunekode_str","faktor")],
by=c("Kommunekode_str"), all.x=TRUE)
This works, but when I am to plot this with tmap,
library(tmap)
tmap_mode("view")
tm_shape(test33) +
tm_fill(col="faktor", alpha=0.6, n=20, palette=c("wheat3","red3")) +
tm_borders(col="#000000", lwd=0.2)
it throws this error:
Error in object[-omit, , drop = FALSE] : incorrect number of
dimensions
If I just use base plot,
plot(test33)
I get the picture:
You see I get three plots. Does this has something to do with my error above?
I think the main issue here is that the shapes you are trying to plot are too complex so tmap is struggling to load all of this data. ggplot also fails to load the polygons.
You probably don't need so much accuracy in your polygons if you are making a choropleth map so I would suggest first simplifying your polygons. In my experience the best way to do this is using the package rmapshaper:
# keep = 0.02 will keep just 2% of the points in your polygons.
test_33_simple <- rmapshaper::ms_simplify(test33, keep = 0.02)
I can now use your code to produce the following:
tmap_mode("view")
tm_shape(test_33_simple) +
tm_fill(col="faktor", alpha=0.6, n=20, palette=c("wheat3","red3")) +
tm_borders(col="#000000", lwd=0.2)
This produces an interactive map and the colour scheme is not ideal to tell differences between municipalities.
static version
Since you say in the comments that you are not sure if you want an interactive map or a static one, I will give an example with a static map and some example colour schemes.
The below uses the classInt package to set up breaks for your map. A popular break scheme is 'fisher' which uses the fisher-jenks algorithm. Make sure you research the various different options to pick one that suits your scenario:
library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)
library(sf)
library(classInt)
breaks <- classIntervals(test_33_simple$faktor, n = 6, style = 'fisher')
#label breaks
lab_vec <- vector(length = length(breaks$brks)-1)
rounded_breaks <- round(breaks$brks,2)
lab_vec[1] <- paste0('[', rounded_breaks[1],' - ', rounded_breaks[2],']')
for(i in 2:(length(breaks$brks) - 1)){
lab_vec[i] <- paste0('(',rounded_breaks[i], ' - ', rounded_breaks[i+1], ']')
}
test_33_simple <- test_33_simple %>%
mutate(faktor_class = factor(cut(faktor, breaks$brks, include.lowest = T), labels = lab_vec))
# map
ggplot(test_33_simple) +
geom_sf(aes(fill = faktor_class), size= 0.2) +
scale_fill_viridis_d() +
theme_minimal()

r geom_map fails with GeoJSON map simplified with gSimplify

I'm constructing world maps with countries color-filled with the (continuous) value depending on a column in a data frame called temp.sp. I want to put several of these maps in a graph. I construct each map using ggplot with geom_map and then construct and display the graphs using multiplot() which uses grid code.
I'm using a GeoJSON map (world <- readOGR(dsn = "ne_50m_admin_0_countries.geojson", layer = "OGRGeoJSON")). The resulting SpatialPolygonsDataFrame is 4.1 Mb and the dataframe that results from worldMap <- broom::tidy(world, region = "iso_a3") has 93391 rows. So when I run multiplot with 4 plot files, it takes a long time.
I thought that I could speed up the printing by simplifying the world map with gSimplify using code like world.simp <- gSimplify(world, tol = .1, topologyPreserve = TRUE). The resulting data frame, worldMap.simp only has 27033 rows but when I use this map I get the error message Error in unit(x, default.units) : 'x' and 'units' must have length > 0.
The error message is generated when I run this code with worldMap.simp. When I use worldMap I have no problems.
gg <- ggplot(temp.sp, aes(map_id = id))
gg <- gg + geom_map(aes(fill = temp.sp$value), map = worldMap.simp, color = "white").
I tried converting temp.sp$value to factor but it made no difference.
To summarize, using a gSimplified map causes the displaying of a graph produced with ggplot and geom_map to fail.
Rather than try to figure out what was going wrong with gSimplify, I found and downloaded a lower resolution map from http://geojson.xyz. The one I'm currently using is
https://d2ad6b4ur7yvpq.cloudfront.net/naturalearth-3.3.0/ne_110m_admin_0_countries.geojson
Note that it has a similar filename, but with 110m instead of 50m.

adding data on top of a 3D base map using R

I am trying to plot a 3D space time cube in R and I want to have a basemap.
I am using rgl library. I know how to plot my data using x, y and z, where z is the time variable. I have also managed to download a map that I want to use as reference from openstreetmap, using the library in R. However, I cannot find a way to plot my data on the map in a 3D environment. I found the following code in several sites and as an answer to a similar question:
map3d <- function(map, ...){
if(length(map$tiles)!=1){stop("multiple tiles not implemented") }
nx = map$tiles[[1]]$xres
ny = map$tiles[[1]]$yres
xmin = map$tiles[[1]]$bbox$p1[1]
xmax = map$tiles[[1]]$bbox$p2[1]
ymin = map$tiles[[1]]$bbox$p1[2]
ymax = map$tiles[[1]]$bbox$p2[2]
xc = seq(xmin,xmax,len=ny)
yc = seq(ymin,ymax,len=nx)
colours = matrix(map$tiles[[1]]$colorData,ny,nx)
m = matrix(0,ny,nx)
surface3d(xc,yc,m,col=colours, ...)
}
However, I cannot really understand how it works.
Here's my code so far:
library(rgl)
library(ggplot2)
library(OpenStreetMap)
map <- openmap(c(53.5,73.6),c(15.7,134.7),type= 'esri-topo')
plot3d(x,y,z, col= colour) # to plot my data
autoplot(map) # to plot the map. though this is 2D
Again, I know how to plot my data on a 2D map. Confused with the 3D.
Any hints and tips on how to do this?
One option is to use the newish 'show2d' function in 'rgl'.
library(rgl)
library(OpenStreetMap)
library(raster)
map <- openmap(c(53.5,73.6),c(15.7,134.7),type= 'esri-topo')
## fake up some xyz
xyz <- expand.grid(x = map$bbox$p1,
y = map$bbox$p2,
z = 1:4)
plot3d(xyz, col = "black") # to plot my data
EDIT: this is wrong, it's only fitted to the bounding box
getting the orientation right is confusing, needs to be check with x, y, z arguments to show2d.
show2d(raster::plotRGB(raster(map)))
This function captures the normal plot expression, writes it to PNG and then texture maps it onto a quad in the scene.
I can't quite see how to control the position of the quad for the image texture with the x, y, z args - work in progress.

Overlap image plot on a Google Map background in R

I'm trying to add this plot of a function defined on Veneto (italian region)
obtained by an image and contour:
image(X,Y,evalmati,col=heat.colors(100), xlab="", ylab="", asp=1,zlim=zlimits,main=title)
contour(X,Y,evalmati,add=T)
(here you can find objects: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/47720440/bounty.RData)
on a Google Map background.
I tried two ways:
PACKAGE RGoogleMaps
I downloaded the map mbackground
MapVeneto<-GetMap.bbox(lonR=c(10.53,13.18),latR=c(44.7,46.76),size = c(640,640),MINIMUMSIZE=TRUE)
PlotOnStaticMap(MapVeneto)
but i don't know the commands useful to add the plot defined by image and contour to the map
PACKAGE loa
I tried this way:
lat.loa<-NULL
lon.loa<-NULL
z.loa<-NULL
nx=dim(evalmati)[1]
ny=dim(evalmati)[2]
for (i in 1:nx)
{
for (j in 1:ny)
{
if(!is.na(evalmati[i,j]))
{
lon.loa<-c(lon.loa,X[i])
lat.loa<-c(lat.loa,Y[j])
z.loa<-c(z.loa,evalmati[i,j])
}
}
}
GoogleMap(z.loa ~ lat.loa*lon.loa,col.regions=c("red","yellow"),labels=TRUE,contour=TRUE,alpha.regions=list(alpha=.5, alpha=.5),panel=panel.contourplot)
but the plot wasn't like the first one:
in the legend of this plot I have 7 colors, and the plot use only these values. image plot is more accurate.
How can I add image plot to GoogleMaps background?
If the use of a GoogleMap map is not mandatory (e.g. if you only need to visualize the coastline + some depth/altitude information on the map), you could use the package marmap to do what you want. Please note that you will need to install the latest development version of marmap available on github to use readGEBCO.bathy() since the format of the files generated when downloading GEBCO files has been altered recently. The data from the NOAA servers is fine but not very accurate in your region of interest (only one minute resolution vs half a minute for GEBCO). Here is the data from GEBCO I used to produce the map : GEBCO file
library(marmap)
# Get hypsometric and bathymetric data from either NOAA or GEBCO servers
# bath <- getNOAA.bathy(lon1=10, lon2=14, lat1=44, lat2=47, res=1, keep=TRUE)
bath <- readGEBCO.bathy("GEBCO_2014_2D_10.0_44.0_14.0_47.0.nc")
# Create color palettes for sea and land
blues <- c("lightsteelblue4", "lightsteelblue3", "lightsteelblue2", "lightsteelblue1")
greys <- c(grey(0.6), grey(0.93), grey(0.99))
# Plot the hypsometric/bathymetric map
plot(bath, land=T, im=T, lwd=.03, bpal = list(c(0, max(bath), greys), c(min(bath), 0, blues)))
plot(bath, n=1, add=T, lwd=.5) # Add coastline
# Transform your data into a bathy object
rownames(evalmati) <- X
colnames(evalmati) <- Y
class(evalmati) <- "bathy"
# Overlay evalmati on the map
plot(evalmati, land=T, im=T, lwd=.1, bpal=col2alpha(heat.colors(100),.7), add=T, drawlabels=TRUE) # use deep= shallow= step= to adjust contour lines
plot(outline.buffer(evalmati),add=TRUE, n=1) # Outline of the data
# Add cities locations and names
library(maps)
map.cities(country="Italy", label=T, minpop=50000)
Since your evalmati data is now a bathy object, you can adjust its appearance on the map like you would for the map background (adjust the number and width of contour lines, adjust the color gradient, etc). plot.bath() uses both image() and contour() so you should be able to get the same results as when you plot with image(). Please take a look at the help for plot.bathy() and the package vignettes for more examples.
I am not realy inside the subject, but Lovelace, R. "Introduction to visualising spatial data in R" might help you
https://github.com/Robinlovelace/Creating-maps-in-R/raw/master/intro-spatial-rl.pdf From section "Adding base maps to ggplot2 with ggmap" with small changes and data from https://github.com/Robinlovelace/Creating-maps-in-R/archive/master.zip
library(dplyr)
library(ggmap)
library(rgdal)
lnd_sport_wgs84 <- readOGR(dsn = "./Creating-maps-in-R-master/data",
layer = "london_sport") %>%
spTransform(CRS("+init=epsg:4326"))
lnd_wgs84_f <- lnd_sport_wgs84 %>%
fortify(region = "ons_label") %>%
left_join(lnd_sport_wgs84#data,
by = c("id" = "ons_label"))
ggmap(get_map(location = bbox(lnd_sport_wgs84) )) +
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aes(x = long, y = lat, group = group, fill = Partic_Per),
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