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

[Robert J. Hijmans]

That still misses the point completely. Geopackage is just another
format out of many. For a map you make in R, it normally should not
matter how the data used may have been stored. Perhaps it would be
more appropriate to call it the SpatialPolygons contest; but I think
that what you have in mind is a "mapping contest".

you can download geopackage data from gadm.org

Robert

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 11:50 AM,  <arilamstein at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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