Add more examples to making maps vignette - mapdeck, tmap, et al

[dshkol]

Wouldn't mind updating and fleshing that out a bit more with additional examples. We both like the mapdeck package, and I think the tmap package provides a great high level api for quick maps that people would find useful. Any others that you would want to include?

Downsides include needing to configure a couple of things - mapdeck, for ex, requires a mapbox api key. We can simply not compile those examples on CRAN, like we do elsewhere, but would need to set it up for CI on github. Easy enough.

[mountainMath]

Could do that. One issue is that it blows up the dependencies. Easy to set this up for CI. The idea behind leaflet was that it's a lightweight way to make a web map. Maybe fancier maps is better for blog posts? Not sure.

[dshkol]

Maybe a blog post is better. I think you’re right with the dependencies. Not worth it.

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 10:49 PM Jens von Bergmann [email protected] wrote:

Could do that. One issue is that it blows up the dependencies. Easy to set this up for CI. The idea behind leaflet was that it's a lightweight way to make a web map. Maybe fancier maps is better for blog posts? Not sure.

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