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

[boB Rudis]

Escaped a meeting and saw that there are sample files on the geopkg site.

I'll do my best (tho I'm not nearly as skilled & geo-connected as
Roger, Barry, et al) to blog the heck out of this format. It's insane
that shp is so prevalent. This is a super nice format.

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:36 PM, Roger Bivand <Roger.Bivand at nhh.no> wrote:
> The CRAN Windows and OSX rgdal binaries have supported GPKG for some time
> now. It would be great to give the driver some traction.
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> Roger
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> Roger Bivand
> Norwegian School of Economics
> Bergen, Norway
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> On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 7:16 PM +0200, "boB Rudis" <bob at rudis.net> wrote:
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> IIRC at least the r-forge rgdal supports GDAL 2.0 which (I'm assuming)
> means it can read GeoPackage files. If that's true, then I'm sure Ari
> wldn't mind it being classified as a "shapefile".
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> Barry: (this is in lieu of a google search on my part after work) do
> you have any links to some public GeoPackage files handy to paste?
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> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Barry Rowlingson
> <b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:
>> OGC-standard GeoPackage
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