[R-sig-Geo] Announcing the R Shapefile Contest

[chris english]

İ have less brilliant analysis but tend like others to think that the
future may not/should not shape up as shapefiles.

Chris
On Jul 13, 2016 20:44, "Barry Rowlingson" <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk>
wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 4:22 PM,  <arilamstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I wanted to let people here know that I am sponsoring the "R Shapefile
> > Contest":
> >
> >
> http://www.arilamstein.com/blog/2016/07/12/announcing-r-shapefile-contest/
> >
> > For the last few years I've done a lot of work with creating choropleth
> > maps of government datasets. But I've also felt a bit limited, in that I
> > don't know the full range of analyses that R can do with shapefiles.
> >
> > I'm hoping that this contest can get a lot of submissions which really
> show
> > off the types of analyses that can be done with R and shapefiles.
>
>  I have a brilliant analysis I would have loved to submit to this
> contest but the agency from which I got the data has been enlightened
> enough not to use the clunky, outdated, and limited "shapefile" format
> and has released the data as a modern, OGC-standard GeoPackage. My
> variables have long names, my metadata is stored with my data, and its
> all in one file instead of six. But sadly, because you limit the
> contest with "The analysis must ... do something with a shapefile" I
> can't compete.
>
>  Shapefiles are an awful, awful format which Esri didn't think people
> would actually use. They should not be encouraged. Maybe I'll start a
> GeoPackage contest. Or you could just have a geospatial vector data
> contest and not discriminate against data formats.
>
> Barry
>
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