MazamaSpatialUtils 0.7.6

• Removed links to slow-to-respond http://www.naturalearthdata.com/ to pass CRAN submission tests.
• Updated out-of-date URLs.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.7.5

• Updated ebolamap.Rmd vignette to pass R CMD check.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.7.4

• Minor documentation improvements.
• Removed unused dependency on tidyr.
• Replaced non-ASCII characters to satisfy CRAN checks.
• Consistent parameter validation in all get~() functions.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.7.3

• URL corrections for CRAN submission.
• Vignette wordsmithing.
• Test updates.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.7.2

• URL corrections after testing with win-builder.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.7.1

• Reordered parameters in installSpatialData() so that dataset comes first.
• installSpatialData() attempts to install simplified versions of datasets: "_05“,”_02" and "_01".
• Replacement of lon and lat in getHUC() and getHUCName().
• subsetHUC() now handles NA values in SPDF@data$allStateCodes.
• Congressional districts dataset name now includes session number:
  USCensus116thCongress.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.7.0

Version 0.7 includes more datasets that have all been through identical processing and harmonization steps. In general, this release represents a clean-and-update revision that brings all aspects of the package up to modern standards.

Improvements include:

• Fewer package dependencies.
• Minor updates to vignettes and articles.
• Consistent replacement of lon and lat withlongitudeandlatitude` in all functions.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.16

• Updated convertWikipediaTimezeonTable().
• Updated convertWorldTimezones() and package internal dataset SimpleTimezones.
• Updated convertGADM() to support GADM version 3.6.
• Updated convertEEZCountries() and SimpleCountriesEEZ dataset.
• Updated SimpleCountries dataset

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.15

• Added US_countyCodes dataset with stateCode, stateFIPS, countyName, countyFIPS.

New functions for converting between US county names/FIPS: * US_countyNameToFIPS() * US_countyFIPSToName()

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.14

• Fixed a bug in loadSpatialData() that was returning dataset names with ".rda".

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.13

• Updated convertWorldEEZ.R.
• Updated convertHMSSmoke.R.
• Updated convertStateLegislativeDistricts.R.
• Updated convertTMWorldBordersSimple.R.
• Updated convertTMWorldBorders.R.
• Updated convertSimpleCountries.R.
• Updated convertGACC.R.
• Updated convertNWSFireZones.R.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.12

• Updated convertMTBSBurnArea.R.
• Updated convertNaturalEarthAdm1.R.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.11

• Removed non-working app/ directory and dependency on shiny.
• Corrected Bosnia country code in convertWikipediaTimezoneTable.R.
• Updated convertEPARegions.R.
• Updated convertOSMTimeZones.R.
• Updated convertTerrestrialEcoregions.R.
• Updated convertWeatherZones.R.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.10

• Updated convertGACC.R to use 2020 data.
• Removed outlying territories from US_stateCodes.
• Updated convertUSCensusStates.R to use 2019 data.
• Updated convertCARBAirBains.R to latest coding style.
• Updated convertUSCensusCBSA.R to latest coding style.
• Updated convertIndianLands.R to latest coding style.
• Now using the cleangeo package to fix topology errors and geometry validity issues.

New functions for converting among US state names/codes/FIPS: * US_stateCodeToName() * US_stateCodeToFIPS() * US_stateFIPSToCode() * US_stateFIPSToName() * US_stateNameToCode() * US_stateNameToFIPS()

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.9

• Changed US_stateCodes dataset to include only stateName, stateCode and stateFIPS columns. It is now more complete with codes for all states and territories.
• convertLayer() now properly passes encoding to rgdal::readOGR().
• Updated convertUSCensusCounties() to use 2019 data.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.8

• New “Developer Style Guide” article.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.7

• New “Basic GIS in R” article.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.6

• loadSpatialData() now recognizes both .RData and .rda files.
• Improved documentation
• New convert functions:
  • convertEPARegions()
  • convertMTBSBurnArea()
  • convertUSCensusUrbanAreas()
  • convertUSFSRangerDistricts()

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.5

• New convertHILFDFederalLands() function.
• Added tidyr package to Imports.
• Updated docker image.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.4

• Modified test infrastructure to address CRAN issues.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.3

• Added useBuffering argument to getUSCounties().
• Addressed bug in loadSpatialData() which errored out when a directory existed with the same name as the dataset trying to be loaded.
• Updated summarizeByPolygon() to modern dplyr syntax.
• Added %>% operator.
• Code style refactoring.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.1

• made simplify() function example donotrun so as to avoid a CRAN testing failure on fedora only – Ugh.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.6.0

• changes associated with minor version bump

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.5.10

• refactored shiny app from localShiny and added it to package in inst
• added runExample() to run shiny examples
• updated README.md

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.5.9

• New convert function for public health districts
• New convert function for GACCs
• more testing

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.5.8

• New convert functions for weather zones
• Argument consistency with getHUC()
• added dissolve() wrapper for rmapshaper::ms_dissolve()

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.5.7

• documentation with pkgdown
• various cleanup: spell check, reformatted NEWS.md, etc.
• added simplify() wrapper for rmapshaper::ms_simplify()

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.5.6

• added CONUS and US_52 vectors of US state codes as package data
• added US_stateCodes dataframe as package data

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.5.5

• added convertStateLegislativeDistricts() function to download and convert US state level legislative districts on demand
• now using countrycode package for all code/name conversions
• ebolamap.Rmd converted to vignette, moved to vignettes/ and localNotebooks/ deleted
• usages of cat() replaced with message(), warning(), or error()

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.5.4

• corrected GADM URL in documentation for convertGADM()

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.5.3

• added convertUSCensusCBSA() to convert Metropolitan-/Micropolitan Statistical Areas
• removed verbose argument from getStateCode() function signature

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.5.2

• fixed use of allStateCodes in WBD~ datasets
• converted USIndianLands@data data from factor to character
• updated docker/Dockerfile
• added ebolaMap vignette

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.5.1

• tweaks to satisfy CRAN

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.5.0

• package now Depends on sp package so that sp plotting is used by default
• package includes higher resolution SimpleCountries and SimpleTimezones datasets
• internal standard now requires unique polygonID column for every dataset
• organizePolygons() now uniformly uses polygonID for rownames and polygons@ID so you can say: plot(SimpleCountries['IT',])
• fixed bug in processing of USCensusCounties dataset
• changed codeToCode() to two functions: iso2ToIso3() and iso3ToIso2()
• package now includes SimpleCountriesEEZ dataset which is used as the default dataset for getCountry(). SimpleCountriesEEZ includes a 200-mile offshore buffer for more efficient and accurate spatial searches
• new datasets include: TerrestrialEcoregions, USCensus115thCongress, USCensusStates, USCensusIndianLands

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.4.9

• new .tar.gz file available containing spatial datasets
• new installSpatialData() installs all required datasets
• loadSpatialData() no loads one or more datasets based on a pattern
• removed initializeSpatialData()
• convertGADM() updated to GADM version 2.8 (handles .rds files)
• updated localVignettes/ebolaMap.Rmd
• new docker/ directory for building docker images to run MazamaSpatialUtils
• new app/ directory demonstrates dockerized web-service based on MazamaSpatialUtils

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.4.8

• locations that do not intersect any polygon now return NA rather than generating warnings
• various minor bug fixes.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.4.5

• convertHMSSmoke() now handles shapefiles with new Density information

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.4.4

• Fixed bug/typo in findTimezones demo.
• Fixed bugs/typos in convertWBDHUC() and convertHMSSmoke().

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.4.3

• New convertHMSSmoke() function for smoke data from the NOAA Hazard Mapping Service.
• Shapefiles with no projection information are assigned "+proj=longlat +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +no_defs".
• Added dependency on lubridate package.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.4.2

• Added encoding argument to converLayer().
• Modified convertUSCensusCounties() to use encoding='latin1'.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.4.1

• Added useBuffering argument to getState(), getCountry() and getTimezone().

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.3.2

• getSpatialData() no longer fails on invalid/missing locations, now returns dataframe rows with all NA.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.3.1 – addition of buffered search and WorldEEZ polygons

• Updated included datasets to use "+proj=longlat +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +no_defs".
• Addition of buffered search so that locations can find nearby polygons.
• Addition of convertWorldEEZ() function.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.2.4

• Updated default projection from "+proj=longlat" to "+proj=longlat +ellps=GRS80 +datum=NAD83 +no_defs" to support libproj >= 4.9.1

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.2.3

• Removed unneeded test that failed with sp version 1.1-0.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.2.2 – minor tweaks to 0.2.1

• User specification of SpatialDataDir is now required.
• Minor documentation improvements.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.2.1 – addition of GADM and USGS HUC8

• Convert functions for GADM administrative boundaries and and USGS watershed datasets.
• Addition of code-name, name-code and code-code conversion utilities.
• Addition of organizePolygons() function.

MazamaSpatialUtils 0.1 – initial release