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mapmisc (version 2.1.2)

Utilities for Producing Maps

Description

Provides a minimal, light-weight set of tools for producing nice looking maps in R, with support for map projections. See Brown (2016) .

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install.packages('mapmisc')

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Version

2.1.2

License

GPL

Maintainer

Patrick Brown

Last Published

January 12th, 2026

Functions in mapmisc (2.1.2)

worldMap

Country boundaries
tpeqd

Two point equidistant and tilted perspective projections
modis

MODIS tiles and projection
netherlands

Data from the Netherlands
map.new

Start a new map
crsMerc

Some coordinate reference systems and bounding boxes
col2html

Convert colours to HTML hex
persistentCache

Set a persistent cache
GNcities

Retrieve city names and locations
legendBreaks

Legends for colour scale
colourScale

Create colour scales
legendTable

Table for colour scales
gridlinesWrap

Adds long-lat grid for projected data
geocode

Georeferencing with Google
omerc

Oblique Mercator, Cylindrical, and Mollweide projections
openmap

Download map tiles
wrapPoly

Reproject polygons with wrapping
tonerToTrans

Convert RGB maps to semi-transparent
scaleBar

Scale bar and inset map