[R-sig-Geo] Plotting simple features sf with ggplot2

[Edzer Pebesma]

On 07/12/16 17:49, Manuel Spínola wrote:
> Dear list members,
> 
> Is there a way to plot a simple features (sf) multipolygon (imported
> shapefile) using ggplot2?

Short answer is: not yet, I'm waiting for some help on this.

There has been quite some discussion about this issue here:

https://github.com/edzer/sfr/issues/88
> 
> Similar to plotting a SpatialPolygonDataFrame  with ggplot2 using the
> function fortify first to convert the SPDF to a data frame.
> 

I think there is now a majority opinion that fortify is not such a good
idea for simple feature (or in general: spatial) geometries.

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Edzer Pebesma
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