README

Years ago I stumbled across Christian Burkhart's post where he shared how to create street/road maps in R with ggplot and osmdata (the openstreetmap R package). I thought it was so cool and wanted to dig into it myself.

This is Christian's take:

Here are mine:

Other Resources

• ggplot2tor: Streetmaps (inspiration)

• OpenStreetMap Features

• OpenStreetMap

• OpenStreetMap Copyright

• Exploring historical maps and spatial data with R and OpenStreetMap

• R ggplot, remove white margins in ggsave/ggplot

• Remove Plot Margins in ggplot2

• Advanced Image-Processing in R with Magick, Part I

• Drawing beautiful maps programmatically with R, sf and ggplot2 — Part 1: Basics

• Print Beautiful City Street Maps with R

• The Beautiful Hidden Logic of Cities

• Road Suffixes in the USA – Take 2

• Personal Art Map with R

• Nashville map

• Taras Kaduk: Print Personalized Street Maps Using R

• R for Journalists: how to access openstreetmaps

• city-roads tweet

• City-roads App

• leeolney on Twitter (and gist here)

• #Dataviz tutorial: Mapping San Francisco Home Prices in R