osmar: OpenStreetMap and R
João dos Santos Manuel, Thomas Schlesinger · The R Journal · 2013
OpenStreetMap provides freely accessible and editable geographic data.The osmar package smoothly integrates the OpenStreetMap project into the R ecosystem.The osmar package provides infrastructure to access OpenStreetMap data from different sources, to enable working with the OSM data in the familiar R idiom, and to convert the data into objects based on classes provided by existing R packages.This paper explains the package's concept and shows how to use it.As an application we present a simple navigation device.