In the beginning, there were only static maps. Over the past years we have seen the creation of new packages like mapview and mapedit that allow one to interactively visualize and edit spatial data in R. Despite these developments, it was still a bit tricky to visualize large spatial data sets in R. Not anymore.
Two packages that are pushing our capabilities to interactively visualize large-scale spatial data sets in R:
Hats off to these two!
- leafgl, by Tim Salabim (the main person behind mapview and mapedit)
- mapdeck, by David Cooley from Symbolix (who is also behind googleway and spatialwidget)
Hats off to these two!
leafgl
mapdeck
