Mike, thanks, again, for all your help. You got me started down the
correct path.
Here's what's finally working for me:
library(tidyverse)
library(tidycensus)
library(sf)
library(tmap)
library(tigris)
options(tigris_use_cache = TRUE)
library(tmaptools)
The OpenStreetMap package is using PseudoMercator (quite common for image
tile servers) which is EPSG:3857. Using your long/lat min max the numbers
give the right neighbourhood, perhaps a transcribe error in the original
'rw' data frame numbers for Y?
Hi, Mike, thanks for answering me from across the world!
I created my polygon of my neighborhood the old fashion way: by printing
a map with a grid in meters, and using a pair of navigational dividers
to pick off the x and y coordinates of the borders of my neighborhood.
You can see a map of
I took a guess that your coordinates are not in EPSG:6487 but in global
Mercator (EPSG:3857) which seems to give a reasonable region from online
image servers.
https://gist.github.com/mdsumner/e6997c2f4a54c743e078aca8401537a0
If that looks ok? Then, simply replace 6487 with 3857 in your
In my continuing work on reporting on US Census data for my
neighborhood, I'd like to draw a map of the boundaries of it. I was
successful in creating and printing an OSM basemap, with the US Census
blocks that make up my neighborhood on it.
Now, I'd like to create my own polygon, of the
