cartography (version 1.2)

tilesLayer: Plot Tiles from Open Map Servers

Description

Plot tiles from open map servers.

Usage

tilesLayer(x, add = FALSE)

Arguments

x

a RasterBrick object; the getTiles function outputs these objects.

add

whether to add the layer to an existing plot (TRUE) or not (FALSE).

See Also

getTiles

Examples

data("nuts2006")
# extract Denmark
spdf <- nuts0.spdf[nuts0.spdf$id=="DK",]   
# Download the tiles, extent = Denmark 
den <- getTiles(spdf = spdf, type = "osm", crop = TRUE)
class(den)
# Plot the tiles
tilesLayer(den)
# Plot countries
plot(spdf, add=TRUE)
# Map tiles sources
mtext(text = "Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, under CC BY SA.",
      side = 1, adj = 0, cex = 0.7, font = 3)