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Get location of airports and ports from GISCO API

Source: R/gisco_get_airports.R
gisco_get_airports.Rd

Loads a sf object from GISCO API or your local library.

Usage

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

gisco_get_ports(
  year = "2013",
  country = NULL,
  cache_dir = NULL,
  update_cache = FALSE,
  verbose = FALSE
)

Source

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

Arguments

year

Year of reference. Only year available right now is "2013".

country

Optional. A 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. Mixed types (as c("Turkey","US","FRA")) would not work. See also countrycode::countrycode().

cache_dir

A path to a cache directory. See About caching.

update_cache

A logical whether to update cache. Default is FALSE. When set to TRUE it would force a fresh download of the source .geojson file.

verbose

Logical, displays information. Useful for debugging, default is FALSE.

Value

A POINT object on EPSG:4326.

Details

gisco_get_airports() refer to Europe. All shapefiles provided in EPSG:4326.

gisco_get_ports() adds a new field CNTR_ISO2 to the original data identifying the country of the port. Worldwide information available. The port codes are aligned with UN/LOCODE standard.

About caching

You can set your cache_dir with gisco_set_cache_dir().

Sometimes cached files may be corrupt. On that case, try re-downloading the data setting update_cache = TRUE.

If you experience any problem on download, try to download the corresponding .geojson file by any other method and save it on your cache_dir. Use the option verbose = TRUE for debugging the API query.

For a complete list of files available check gisco_db.

See also

Other infrastructure: gisco_get_healthcare()

Examples

# \donttest{
library(sf)
#> Linking to GEOS 3.11.2, GDAL 3.7.2, PROJ 9.3.0; sf_use_s2() is TRUE

Greece <- gisco_get_countries(country = "EL", resolution = "1")
AirP_GC <- gisco_get_airports(country = "EL")
AirP_GC <- st_transform(AirP_GC, st_crs(Greece))

library(ggplot2)


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()
  )



##############################
#         Plot ports         #
##############################

ports <- gisco_get_ports()
coast <- giscoR::gisco_coastallines

# To Equal Earth projection :)

library(sf)
coast <- st_transform(coast, 8857)
ports <- st_transform(ports, st_crs(coast))


ggplot(coast) +
  geom_sf(fill = "#F6E1B9", color = "#0978AB") +
  geom_sf(data = ports, fill = "red", shape = 21) +
  theme_void() +
  theme(
    panel.background = element_rect(fill = "#C6ECFF"),
    panel.grid = element_blank(),
    plot.title = element_text(face = "bold", hjust = 0.5),
    plot.subtitle = element_text(face = "italic", hjust = 0.5)
  ) +
  labs(
    title = "Ports Worldwide", subtitle = "Year 2013",
    caption = "(c) European Union, 1995 - today"
  )

# }