This is a package for making easy maps of Denmark.

Currently, the package allows you to do three things:

1. make basic maps of Denmark
2. turn these maps into (static) choropleth maps
3. plot longitude-latitude points on a map of Denmark

I recommend you install the development version from github, using Hadley Wickham's devtools package:

if(!require("devtools")) install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("sebastianbarfort/mapDK")

To create a basic map of Denmark at the municipality level simply run

library(mapDK)
mapDK()

You can control the level of the map by specifying the detail argument. Currenty, mapDK accepts the following arguments

• municipality - plots Denmark's 98 municipalities
• region - plots Denmark's 5 regions
• rural - plots Denmark's 11 rural areas
• zip - plots Denmark's 598 zip code areas
• polling - plots Denmark's 1385 polling places (as of 2015)
• parish - plots Denmark's 1931 parishes

Choropleth Maps

mapDK also allows you to create static choropleth maps using either the package's build in datasets, or new datasets provided by the user.

Plot Municipality Level Data

To create a static choropleth map at the municipality level we can use some data about burglaries in Denmark (included in the package).

One creates a choropleth map simply by specifying the values and id's (as strings) and the dataset in the call to mapDK

mapDK(values = "indbrud", id = "kommune", data = crime)

If you don't provide names for all municipalities, the function will throw a warning.

Plot Polling Place Data

You can create cool maps of election results at the polling place level by specifying detail = "polling". The package includes a dataset of Danish general election 2011 results at the polling level. Below, we plot Socialdemokratiets election results in percent at each available polling place in the map dataset

mapDK(values = "stemmer", id = "id", 
  data = subset(votes, navn == "socialdemokratiet"),
  detail = "polling", show_missing = FALSE,
  guide.label = "Stemmer \nSocialdemokratiet (pct)")

Say you only want to plot Socialdemokratiets votes in Copenhagen. That's easily done using the sub.plot option

mapDK(values = "stemmer", id = "id", 
  data = subset(votes, navn == "socialdemokratiet"),
  detail = "polling", show_missing = FALSE,
  guide.label = "Stemmer \nSocialdemokratiet (pct)",
  sub.plot = "koebenhavn")

Plot points on a map of Denmark

You can provide your own data set of longitude-latitude points (in WGS84) and plot them on a map of Denmark using the pointDK function. Below, I plot a data set of benches in Copenhagen available in the package

pointDK(benches, sub = "koebenhavn", point.colour = "red")

You can also plot values in your data by specifying a values column

benches$mydata = 1:nrow(benches) # create values
pointDK(benches, values = "mydata", detail = "polling", sub.plot = "koebenhavn", point.colour = "red",
       aesthetic = "colour")

The getID function

The getID function allows you to print the map key. Running this before plotting your dataset with mapDK is probably a good idea.

getID accepts only one argument, detail, and using it is as easy as (it returns keys for municipalities if nothing else is specified)

getID()[1:10]
#>  [1] "aabenraa"    "aalborg"     "aeroe"       "albertslund" "alleroed"   
#>  [6] "aarhus"      "assens"      "ballerup"    "billund"     "bornholm"

Say you want the names of the parishes instead, just run mapDK(detail = "parish").

mapDK and ggmap

The functions in mapDK work nicely with ggmap. Below is an example

library("ggmap")
library("dplyr")
votes.cph.shape = mapDK::polling %>% filter(KommuneNav == "koebenhavn") %>% left_join(mapDK::votes)
cph.map = ggmap(get_map(location = c(12.57, 55.68), 
                       source = "stamen", 
                       maptype = "toner", crop = TRUE,
                       zoom = 13))
cph.map + 
  geom_polygon(data = subset(votes.cph.shape, navn == "socialdemokratiet"), 
                       aes(x = long, y = lat,
                           group = group, fill = stemmer),
                       alpha = .75)