Jens von Bergmann
Jens von Bergmann
st_jitter is great for various purposes, for example to reveal geometries that cover each. It could be improved in 2 ways. 1. The current implementation jitters geometries by drawing from...
The ```getFeatureAt``` method allows to get access to the properties of a single visible feature. For data visualizations it would be great to also have a ```getFeaturesIn``` method that allows...
Release candidate addressing https://github.com/mountainMath/cancensus/issues/187 and https://github.com/mountainMath/cancensus/issues/184. Enhaancement https://github.com/mountainMath/cancensus/issues/185 is probably more of a longer term project, but we could try and work at least the CSV xtabs into this one...
The internal CensusMapper dataset identifiers for census data, CA1996, CA01, CA06, CA11, CA16, and CA21 are not necessarily the most intuitive for users (and not consistent for legacy reasons). Cancensus...
A common task is to get unique names for CSDs. CensusMapper sends down names with the municipal status appended in parenthesis to ward off some duplication of CSD names. A...
Cross tabulations for 2021 are easily available via the [{cansim} package](https://github.com/mountainMath/cansim). Cross tabulations for the 2016 and earlier censuses come as CSV or XML files, and can be processed through...
maintenance and small bug fix update
When a request results in empty regions the server trips an error, this needs fixing server side. Example call: ``` get_census(dataset='CA21', regions=list(CD='3532'), geo_format='sf', level='CT') ```
CensusMapper is not build for bulk data download, country-wide download of geographies at the DA or DB level will fail. The server should have better error messages for that.
When building metadata for Canadian census variables requiring a base variable *tongfen* will add duplicate base variables if two different census variables require the same base variable. This happens for...