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

[arilamstein at gmail.com]

I have updated the contest page to clarify that entries that use the
GeoPackage format are welcome:

http://www.arilamstein.com/blog/2016/07/12/announcing-r-shapefile-contest/#update

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 10:39 AM, boB Rudis <bob at rudis.net> wrote:

> 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.
> >
> > Roger
> >
> > Roger Bivand
> > Norwegian School of Economics
> > Bergen, Norway
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 7:16 PM +0200, "boB Rudis" <bob at rudis.net>
> wrote:
> >
> > 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".
> >
> > 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?
> >
> > 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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