Airports dataset

This dataset includes the location of over 11,800 Pan European airports and heliports. The airports are identified using the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) airport codes.

Usage

gisco_get_airports(
  year = c(2013, 2006),
  country = NULL,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  update_cache = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Source

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/gisco/geodata/transport-networks

Arguments

year: character string or number. Release year of the file. One of 2013, 2006.
country: character vector of country codes. It could be either a vector of country names, a vector of ISO3 country codes or a vector of Eurostat country codes. See also countrycode::countrycode().
cache_dir: character string. A path to a cache directory. See Caching strategies section in gisco_set_cache_dir().
update_cache: logical. Should the cached file be refreshed?. Default is FALSE. When set to TRUE it would force a new download.
verbose: logical. If TRUE displays informational messages.

Value

A sf object.

Details

Dataset includes objects in EPSG:4326.

Examples

library(sf)

greece <- gisco_get_countries(country = "EL", resolution = 3)
airp_gc <- gisco_get_airports(2013, country = "EL")

library(ggplot2)

if (inherits(airp_gc, "sf")) {
  ggplot(greece) +
    geom_sf(fill = "grey80") +
    geom_sf(data = airp_gc, color = "blue") +
    labs(
      title = "Airports on Greece",
      shape = NULL,
      color = NULL,
      caption = gisco_attributions()
    )
}