Process roads data — process

The process_groads() function imports and cleans raw road data, returning a single SpatVector object.

Usage

process_groads(path = NULL, extent = NULL, ...)

Arguments

path: character(1). Path to geodatabase or shapefiles.
extent: numeric(4) or SpatExtent giving the extent of the raster if NULL (default), the entire raster is loaded
...: Placeholders.

Value

a SpatVector object

Note

U.S. context. The returned SpatVector object contains a $description column to represent the temporal range covered by the dataset. For more information, see https://data.nasa.gov/dataset/global-roads-open-access-data-set-version-1-groadsv1.

Author

Insang Song

Examples

## NOTE: Example is wrapped in `\dontrun{}` as function requires a large
##       amount of data which is not included in the package.
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
groads <- process_groads(
  path = "./data/groads_example.shp"
)
} # }