R Interface to Get French Heritage Data
Overview
Get spatial vector data from the Atlas du Patrimoine (http://atlas.patrimoines.culture.fr/atlas/trunk/), the official national platform of the French Ministry of Culture, and facilitate its use within R geospatial workflows. The package provides functions to list available heritage datasets, query and retrieve heritage data using spatial queries based on user-provided sf objects, perform spatial filtering operations, and return results as sf objects suitable for spatial analysis, mapping, and integration into heritage management and landscape studies.
Improvements
- Improved
get_heritage()robustness when processing spatial queries that return no features. - Added handling for
NonTelechargeable.txtresponses returned by the Atlas du Patrimoine when no spatial features match the requested extent. - Improved error handling when shapefiles cannot be read from downloaded archives.
- Improved diagnostic messages for empty spatial query results and shapefile read failures.
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- 22 (17 internal)
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Package metadata
- First published
- 2026-01-24
- Total releases
- 3 / 1 yrs
- License
- GPL (>= 3) OSI
- Minimum R
- ≥ 4.1.0
- Bundled data
- 5.8 KB / 1 file
- Download size
- 359 KB
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