zonebuilder: Create and Explore Geographic Zoning Systems

Functions, documentation and example data to help divide geographic space into discrete polygons (zones). The functions are motivated by research into the merits of different zoning systems <doi:10.1068/a090169>. A flexible 'ClockBoard' zoning system is provided, which breaks-up space by concentric rings and radial lines emanating from a central point. By default, the diameter of the rings grow according the triangular number sequence <doi:10.1080/26375451.2019.1598687> with the first 4 'doughnuts' (or 'annuli') measuring 1, 3, 6, and 10 km wide. These annuli are subdivided into equal segments (12 by default), creating the visual impression of a dartboard. Zones are labelled according to distance to the centre and angular distance from North, creating a simple geographic zoning and labelling system useful for visualising geographic phenomena with a clearly demarcated central location such as cities.

Version: 0.0.2
Depends: R (≥ 2.10)
Imports: sf, RColorBrewer, graphics, grDevices
Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, tmap, tmaptools, pct, dplyr, lwgeom, leaflet, covr, bookdown
Published: 2021-07-12
Author: Robin Lovelace ORCID iD [aut, cre], Martijn Tennekes [aut]
Maintainer: Robin Lovelace <rob00x at gmail.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/zonebuilders/zonebuilder/issues
License: GPL-3
URL: https://github.com/zonebuilders/zonebuilder, https://zonebuilders.github.io/zonebuilder/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README NEWS
CRAN checks: zonebuilder results

Documentation:

Reference manual: zonebuilder.pdf
Vignettes: Combining zoning systems
Zonebuilder hackathon
ClockBoard: a zoning system for urban analysis

Downloads:

Package source: zonebuilder_0.0.2.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: zonebuilder_0.0.2.zip, r-release: zonebuilder_0.0.2.zip, r-oldrel: zonebuilder_0.0.2.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): zonebuilder_0.0.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): zonebuilder_0.0.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): zonebuilder_0.0.2.tgz
Old sources: zonebuilder archive

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