Maps

2 posts

  • Working with shapefiles, projections and world maps in ggplot

    2 min read R

    In this post I show some different examples of how to work with map projections and how to plot the maps using ggplot. Many maps that are using the default projection are shown in the longlat-format, which is far from optimal. Here I show how to use either the Robinson or Winkel Tripel projection.

  • Simple data mining and plotting data on a map with ggplot2

    2 min read R

    In this post I scrape data from a document were members of a group wrote were they live, and then plot the result using OpenStreetsMaps and ggplot2.