Function reference • giscoR

Political

These functions return sf objects with political boundaries

gisco_bulk_download(): Bulk download from GISCO API

gisco_get_countries(): Get GISCO world country sf polygons, points and lines

gisco_get_coastallines(): Get GISCO coastlines sf polygons

gisco_get_communes() gisco_get_lau(): Get GISCO urban areas sf polygons, points and lines

gisco_get_nuts(): Get GISCO NUTS sf polygons, points and lines

gisco_get_postalcodes(): Get postal code points from GISCO

gisco_get_units(): Get geospatial units data from GISCO API

gisco_get_urban_audit(): Get GISCO greater cities and metropolitan areas sf objects

Infrastructures

These functions return sf objects with man-made features

gisco_get_airports() gisco_get_ports(): Get location of airports and ports from GISCO API

gisco_get_healthcare(): Get locations of healthcare services in Europe

Misc

These functions return other sf objects

gisco_get_grid(): Get grid cells covering covering Europe for various resolutions

Cache management

gisco_clear_cache(): Clear your giscoR cache dir

gisco_set_cache_dir() gisco_detect_cache_dir(): Set your giscoR cache dir

Helpers

A collection of helper functions

gisco_attributions(): Attribution when publishing GISCO data

gisco_check_access(): Check access to GISCO API

Datasets

Datasets included with giscoR

gisco_coastallines: World coastal lines POLYGON object

gisco_countries: World countries POLYGON sf object

gisco_countrycode: Data frame with different country code schemes and world regions

gisco_nuts: All NUTS POLYGON object

About the package

giscoR giscoR-package: giscoR: Download Map Data from GISCO API - Eurostat