animal maps!
September 21, 2021 8:59 AM Subscribe
Mapping Movements – The Art and the Science "We all love to look at maps of animal movements, but producing good maps is challenging. Thus, our aim was to launch a competition to attract contributions from a broad range of fields, to facilitate knowledge exchange. "
Maps can be produced for different purposes, so we asked for contributions to 4 different categories – the pretty one (the most beautiful/artistic map); the nerdy one (the map displaying the most technically challenging/smart solution/approach); the dynamic one (the best dynamic map of animal movements); and the RMap one (the best map produced entirely using R, with complete reproducible code).
Maps can be produced for different purposes, so we asked for contributions to 4 different categories – the pretty one (the most beautiful/artistic map); the nerdy one (the map displaying the most technically challenging/smart solution/approach); the dynamic one (the best dynamic map of animal movements); and the RMap one (the best map produced entirely using R, with complete reproducible code).
These are great!
I wish some of them were labelled a bit better; I can't always tell what I'm looking at.
The Nashville Warbler one (under Dynamic) was lovely.
I had no idea you could produce maps using R.
These are really very cool. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, dhruva!
posted by kristi at 10:16 AM on September 21, 2021 [2 favorites]
I wish some of them were labelled a bit better; I can't always tell what I'm looking at.
The Nashville Warbler one (under Dynamic) was lovely.
I had no idea you could produce maps using R.
These are really very cool. Thank you so much for sharing this with us, dhruva!
posted by kristi at 10:16 AM on September 21, 2021 [2 favorites]
I didn't know you could make maps in R either. I wonder what package they use, etc.
These are so fun, thanks for posting.
posted by waving at 11:18 AM on September 21, 2021
These are so fun, thanks for posting.
posted by waving at 11:18 AM on September 21, 2021
Moving though the Arctic – Pectoral sandpipers in the wind was robbed. I mean, sure it won nerdy, but it is clearly the most beautiful and also the most dynamic. I am going to assume it was made entirely in R even though it probably wasn't and declare it robbed in that category, too.
posted by jacquilynne at 11:32 AM on September 21, 2021
posted by jacquilynne at 11:32 AM on September 21, 2021
If you click on the "i" icon at the bottom there is a lot more information on the data and methods for each map. For example the elephant map was produced with the rgeemap package.
R is actually pretty good for geospatial analysis - I use it quite a lot for dealing with gridded (netcdf) and polygon (shapefile) data. Plus lots of good map packages. My favourites right now are rasterVIs and tmap for basic plotting that just looks good out of the box.
posted by piyushnz at 3:52 PM on September 21, 2021
R is actually pretty good for geospatial analysis - I use it quite a lot for dealing with gridded (netcdf) and polygon (shapefile) data. Plus lots of good map packages. My favourites right now are rasterVIs and tmap for basic plotting that just looks good out of the box.
posted by piyushnz at 3:52 PM on September 21, 2021
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THAT's an animal map.
posted by BWA at 9:48 AM on September 21, 2021 [3 favorites]