Provider Tiles

Interactive Maps with leaflet in R

Rich Majerus

Vice President of Strategy & Planning, Queens University of Charlotte

Selecting a Base Map

Why are you making this map?
- Exploratory analysis
- Deliverable product
- Just for fun!

What type of data are you plotting?
- Points
- Paths
- Polygons

Selecting a Base Map

Camouflage marker example

Prominent color example

leaflet Provider List

The leaflet packages comes with 100+ provider tiles
The names of these tiles are stored in a list named providers

names(providers)[1:5]

  [1] "OpenStreetMap"                      
  [2] "OpenStreetMap.Mapnik"               
  [3] "OpenStreetMap.BlackAndWhite"        
  [4] "OpenStreetMap.DE"                   
  [5] "OpenStreetMap.France"

Exploring leaflet Provider Tiles

names(providers)[str_detect(names(providers), "OpenStreetMap")]

[1] "OpenStreetMap"               "OpenStreetMap.Mapnik"       
[3] "OpenStreetMap.BlackAndWhite" "OpenStreetMap.DE"           
[5] "OpenStreetMap.France"        "OpenStreetMap.HOT"

addProviderTiles()

Replace addTiles() with addProviderTiles() to change your basemap
Pass name of provider tile to addProviderTiles()

leaflet() %>% 
     # addTiles() 
     addProviderTiles("OpenStreetMap.BlackAndWhite")

addProviderTiles() example

Let's practice!

Interactive Maps with leaflet in R