geobr (version 1.6)

read_municipal_seat: Download spatial data of municipal seats (sede dos municipios) in Brazil

Description

This function reads the official data on the municipal seats (sede dos municipios) of Brazil. The data brings the geographical coordinates (lat lon) of municipal seats for various years between 1872 and 2010. Original data were generated by Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE).

Usage

read_municipal_seat(year = 2010, showProgress = TRUE)

Arguments

year

A year number in YYYY format. Defaults to 2010

showProgress

Logical. Defaults to TRUE display progress bar

Value

An "sf" "data.frame" object

Examples

# NOT RUN {
 if (interactive()) {
# Read municipal seats in an specific year
m <- read_municipal_seat(year = 1991)
}
# }