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ggmap: Spatial Visualization with ggplot2

CONTRIBUTEDRESEARCHARTICLES144ggmap: Spatial Visualization withggplot2by David Kahle and Hadley WickhamAbstractIn Spatial statistics the ability to visualize data and models superimposed with their basicsocial landmarks and geographic context is a new tool which enables suchvisualization by combining the Spatial information of static maps from Google Maps, OpenStreetMap,Stamen Maps or CloudMade Maps with the layered grammar of graphics implementation addition, several new utility functions are introduced which allow the user to access the GoogleGeocoding, Distance Matrix, and Directions APIs. The result is an easy, consistent and modularframework for Spatial graphics with several convenient tools for Spatial data Spatial data in R can be a challenging task. Fortunately the task is made a good deal easierby the data structures and plot methods ofsp,RgoogleMaps, and related packages (Pebesma andBivand, 2006; Bivand et al.)

While longitude/latitude pairs are ideal for specifying a location, they are somewhat inconvenient on a practical level. For this reason, location also accepts a character string. The string, whether containing an address, zip code, or proper name, is then passed to …

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