Using R to produce map figures and display spatial data

This repository contains the files necessary to complete the Coding Club Maps tutorial - you can check it out at https://ourcodingclub.github.io/2016/11/25/maps_tutorial.html

The bird data (Gyps_rueppellii_GBIF.csv, Spheniscus_dermersus_GBIF.csv) were downloaded from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) https://www.gbif.org.

The trout data (Brown_Trout_GBIF_clip.csv) were downloaded from GBIF and modified by removing unnecessary columns.

The Freshwater Ecoregions shapefile (FEOW-TNC) was downloaded from http://www.feow.org

play_areas.csv was downloaded from http://data.edinburghopendata.info/dataset/play-areas

ggmap_Cheatsheet.pdf and Coord_Ref_Systems.pdf were downloaded from the National Centre for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/~frazier/RSpatialGuides/

maps_tutorial_script.R gives a concise version of all the code used in this tutorial.

For more about Coding Club, please see https://ourcodingclub.github.io/

Check out https://ourcodingclub.github.io/workshop/ to learn how you can get involved!

We would love to hear your feedback on the tutorial, whether you did it at a Coding Club workshop or online: https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/NMD3N5K

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