[R-sig-Geo] mapview 1.2.0

[Bacou, Melanie]

Tim,
Both `leaflet` and `tmap` currently offer quick interactive 
visualization of geospatial data in R. Does `mapview` provide different 
functionality at this point?

https://rstudio.github.io/leaflet/
https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tmap/vignettes/tmap-nutshell.html

Thx, --Mel.


On 9/20/2016 4:11 AM, Tim Appelhans wrote:
> Dear list members,
>
> 2 days ago we have released a new version of the mapview package.
>
> Notable new features are:
>
> 1. addHomeButton() to add zoom-to-layer buttons to a leaflet map (by 
> default included mapview calls)
> 2. addLogo() to add an image to the map canvas, e.g. your 
> institution's/company's logo (see following tweet for an example with 
> a dancing banana :-) )
>
> https://twitter.com/TimSalabim3/status/776712613673730048
>
> In addition several bugfixes and some performance improvements for 
> raster image rendering in plainview().
>
> The full list of changes can be found at 
> https://github.com/environmentalinformatics-marburg/mapview/blob/master/NEWS
> As always, please file bug reports and/or feature requests here:
>
> https://github.com/environmentalinformatics-marburg/mapview/issues
>
> Enjoy!
> Tim
>