rmapshaper

Client for 'mapshaper' for 'Geospatial' Operations

v0.6.0 · Dec 4, 2025 · MIT + file LICENSE

Description

Edit and simplify 'geojson', 'Spatial', and 'sf' objects. This is wrapper around the 'mapshaper' 'JavaScript' library by Matthew Bloch <https://github.com/mbloch/mapshaper/> to perform topologically-aware polygon simplification, as well as other operations such as clipping, erasing, dissolving, and converting 'multi-part' to 'single-part' geometries.

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OK 14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE Mar 10, 2026

Reverse Dependencies (15)

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MazamaSpatialUtils canadamaps cshapes dots micromapST

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Version History

new 0.6.0 Mar 10, 2026

updated 0.6.0 ← 0.5.0 diff Dec 3, 2025

updated 0.5.0 ← 0.4.6 diff Apr 10, 2023

updated 0.4.6 ← 0.4.5 diff May 10, 2022

updated 0.4.5 ← 0.4.4 diff May 25, 2021

updated 0.4.4 ← 0.4.3 diff Mar 31, 2020

updated 0.4.3 ← 0.4.2 diff Jan 27, 2020

updated 0.4.2 ← 0.4.1 diff Jan 16, 2020

updated 0.4.1 ← 0.4.0 diff Oct 15, 2018

updated 0.4.0 ← 0.3.0 diff Apr 2, 2018

updated 0.3.0 ← 0.2.0 diff Aug 15, 2017

updated 0.2.0 ← 0.1.0 diff Feb 15, 2017

new 0.1.0 Jun 28, 2016