{"id":179,"date":"2011-10-09T17:53:11","date_gmt":"2011-10-09T21:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=179"},"modified":"2015-05-01T09:03:16","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T13:03:16","slug":"gis-with-open-street-map-and-r","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=179","title":{"rendered":"GIS with Open Street Map and R"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may occasionally publish links to &#8216;how-to&#8217; posts from elsewhere. I recently came across the information linked below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.openstreetmap.org\/\">OpenStreetMap<\/a> is a free, editable world map (spatial database). Data from the project may be used in GIS software or uploaded to a map-capable GPS unit.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-project.org\/\">R Project for Statistical Computing<\/a>\u00a0is the home of R (aka Gnu S) \u2014 a free, open source statistics package that has gained a substantial following in recent years. R is multiplatform and has a large, active developer base. There are many example scripts and a copious amount of tutorial information available online to help you learn R.<\/p>\n<p>The blog post found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.r-bloggers.com\/visualizing-gis-data-with-r-and-open-street-map\/\">here<\/a> is entitled\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #000000;\">Visualizing GIS data with R and Open Street Map. <\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000;\">The tutorial uses free software and data for mapping.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"Apple-style-span\" style=\"color: #000000;\">Enjoy.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may occasionally publish links to &#8216;how-to&#8217; posts from elsewhere. I recently came across the information linked below. OpenStreetMap is a free, editable world map (spatial database). Data from the project may be used in GIS software or uploaded to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/?p=179\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-how-to","category-information"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=179"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":182,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179\/revisions\/182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gis.mtu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}