On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 12:49 PM, Roland Kaiser <roland.kai...@sbg.ac.at>wrote:
> Hi Patrik, > > like Tom suggested you may also want to download google maps tiles > directly, mosaic them and warp to your desired projection. > > Tom's code getStaticGoogleMaps.R is a great thing! > However, I can't run it on Mac OSX, because I failed to > compile SAGA GIS. Instead developed code that calls GDAL programs. > > If you work on Mac OSX or another UNIX system > you may try the script temporally here: > > http://www.users.sbg.ac.at/~9722152/fetchGE/fetchGE.zip<http://www.users.sbg.ac.at/%7E9722152/fetchGE/fetchGE.zip> > > Documentation is in file FetchGE.R > You need to install GDAL, python and wget, as well as library(rgdal). > > Best wishes, > > Roland > > If you don't want to tie yourself to the big friendly googlebeast, I've a package that loads OpenStreetMap tiles into R graphics devices: https://r-forge.r-project.org/projects/webmaps/ - no API key, no tricky licensing. It also has code for creating OpenLayers web maps. Barry -- blog: http://geospaced.blogspot.com/ web: http://www.maths.lancs.ac.uk/~rowlings web: http://www.rowlingson.com/ twitter: http://twitter.com/geospacedman pics: http://www.flickr.com/photos/spacedman [[alternative HTML version deleted]] _______________________________________________ R-sig-Geo mailing list R-sig-Geo@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-geo
