Questions tagged [rgeo-shapefile]
33 questions
0
votes
1 answer
ogrInfo error when using rmapshaper::ms_simplify
Has anyone else seen the following error when using the ms_simplify function in the rmapshaper package?
foo = rmapshaper::ms_simplify(rworldmap::countriesLow)
Error in ogrInfo(dsn = dsn, layer = layer, encoding = encoding, use_iconv = use_iconv, :…
0
votes
1 answer
How to determine if a lat/lon pair is located inside of a shapefile polygon
I am using the rgeo and rgeo-shapefile gems in my Rails 5 application. My goal is to load in a shapefile of neighborhoods and determine which neighborhood a latitude/longitude point is located within.
In their documentation they have this…

wuliwong
- 4,238
- 9
- 41
- 69
-1
votes
2 answers
Dissolve Overlapping Polygons using difference and union in R
Have the shape file which has multiple polygons with logical division of Zones and Plots. Plots are overlapping over Zones. The task is to dissolve / merge plots with Zones with no overlapping.
Here is spplot of the shape file. Here plots are on…

string
- 787
- 10
- 39