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mapsf.gui: a shiny app to make maps with R

mapsf.gui
mapsf
shiny
mapsf.gui is a shiny application that provides an interactive interface for creating thematic maps using the mapsf package. It automatically generates the corresponding R…
Jun 30, 2026
Timothée Giraud, Matthieu Viry, Hugues Pecout

New release of mapsf: version 1.2.0

mapsf
mapsf is a thematic cartography package for R that helps to design different kinds of maps, such as proportional symbols, choropleths, or typology maps.
May 18, 2026
Timothée Giraud

New release of maplegend: version 0.6.3

maplegend
mapsf
maplegend is a package for creating legends for maps and other graphics.
May 13, 2026
Timothée Giraud

New release of maplegend: version 0.4.0

maplegend
mapsf
maplegend is a low/no dependency package for creating legends for maps and other graphics.
It is the backend used by mapsf for legend-related tasks.
Dec 5, 2025
Timothée Giraud

New release of mapsf: version 1.0.0

mapsf
The first major version of mapsf has been deployed on CRAN!
Jul 1, 2025
Timothée Giraud

New release of mapsf

mapsf
An update of mapsf has been deployed on CRAN.
The package now includes two new functions: mf_get_borders() and mf_get_pencil(). The first function extracts borders between…
Nov 5, 2024
Timothée Giraud

Raster maps with mapsf

mapsf
mapsf focuses on creating thematic maps based on vector data, maps are mainly generated from sf objects.
However, the latest update of mapsf (v0.9.0) expands its mapping…
Jan 31, 2024
Timothée Giraud

linemap update

linemap
The linemap package (Giraud 2023) contains just one function: linemap(). linemap() displays a map made of lines using raster or gridded data.
Nov 29, 2023
Timothée Giraud

mapsf update and maplegend introduction

mapsf
maplegend
An update of mapsf has been deployed on CRAN. In this article I will describe the changes introduced by this update.
Nov 24, 2023
Timothée Giraud

How to Build a European-Wide OSRM Server on a Desktop Computer

osrm
Open Source Routing Machine, or OSRM (Luxen and Vetter 2011), is a routing software based on OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. OSRM can be used to find the fastest route between…
Oct 9, 2023
Timothée Giraud

New release of mapsf

mapsf
A minor update of mapsf has been deployed on CRAN. In this article I’ll describe the changes introduced by this update.
Jul 11, 2023
Timothée Giraud

New release of cartography

cartography
A new version of cartography has been released on CRAN this week. cartography is a thematic mapping package for R that has entered in maintenance mode on March 2021.
Jan 20, 2023
Timothée Giraud

New release of mapsf

mapsf
The R spatial ecosystem is rich, dynamic and mature and several packages allow to import, process and represent spatial data. The mapsf package (Giraud 2022) relies on this…
Dec 13, 2022
Timothée Giraud

New release of osrm

osrm
osrm is an interface between R and the Open Source Routing Machine (OSRM) API. OSRM (Luxen and Vetter 2011) is a routing service based on OpenStreetMap (OSM) data. This…
Nov 4, 2022
Timothée Giraud
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