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

[arilamstein at gmail.com]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for clarifying. I have updated the copy again:

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

I think that this addresses the concerns that have been raised on this
list. Can you confirm?

Thanks.

Ari

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 1:04 PM, Robert J. Hijmans <r.hijmans at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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