Type: Package
Title: A 'Shiny' Tool to Create Interactive Catalogues for Geospatial Data
Version: 0.1.3
Date: 2025-08-257
Author: Sebastien Plutniak ORCID iD [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Sebastien Plutniak <sebastien.plutniak@posteo.net>
Description: Seamlessly create interactive online catalogues for geospatial data. Items can be mapped as points or areas and retrieved using either a map or a dynamic table with search form and optional column filters.
License: GPL-3
Repository: CRAN
Encoding: UTF-8
Imports: leaflet, leaflet.extras, shiny, shinythemes, DT,
Depends: R (≥ 4.1.0)
URL: https://github.com/sebastien-plutniak/spatialCatalogueViewer
BugReports: https://github.com/sebastien-plutniak/spatialCatalogueViewer/issues
NeedsCompilation: no
Packaged: 2025-08-26 22:55:14 UTC; seb
Date/Publication: 2025-08-27 08:00:02 UTC

spatialCatalogueViewer

Description

Launch the spatialCatalogueViewer application.

Usage

spatialCatalogueViewer(data = NULL, 
  text.title = NULL, text.left = NULL, text.top = NULL, text.bottom = NULL,
  map.provider = "Stadia.StamenTerrainBackground",
  map.set.lon = 0, map.set.lat = 0, 
  map.legend.variable = NULL, map.legend.labels = NULL, 
  map.legend.colors = NULL, map.height = 500,
  map.area.fill.color = "grey", map.area.fill.opacity = 0.5, 
  map.show.areas = "never", map.min.zoom = NULL,
  table.hide.columns = NULL, table.filter = "none", table.pageLength = NULL,
  data.download.button = TRUE,
  tabs.contents = NULL,
  theme = "cosmo", css = NULL, js = NULL)

Arguments

data

dataframe. The data. See details for mandatory columns.

text.title

character. HTML text to use for the title.

text.left

character. HTML text to use in the columns left to the map.

text.top

character. HTML text to use above the map.

text.bottom

character. HTML text to use below the map.

map.provider

character. Name of the bap provider, see https://leaflet-extras.github.io/leaflet-providers/preview/ for possible values.

map.set.lon

integer. Initial longitude to center the map, a value in [-90, 90].

map.set.lat

integer. Initial latitude to center the map, a value in [-90, 90].

map.legend.variable

character. The name of the column to use for the legend. It also defines the legend title.

map.legend.labels

character. A vector with names for the legend's items. Must have the same length than 'map.legend.colors'.

map.legend.colors

character. A vector of color names for the legend's item. Must have the same length than 'map.legend.labels'. See colors() for a list of possible values.

map.height

integer. Height in px of the map.

map.area.fill.color

character. A color name to color the areas. See colors() for a list of possible values.

map.area.fill.opacity

numerical. Opacity of the areas, a value between 0 and 1.

map.show.areas

character or logical. One of TRUE, FALSE, 'always', 'never'. If TRUE or FALSE, a checkbox is displayed under the map.

map.min.zoom

integer. Minimal zoom for the map, between 1 and 12.

table.hide.columns

chatacter. Name(s) of the column(s) to hide in the interactive table. Note that these columns can be searched using the 'Search' form anyways.

table.filter

character. Whether and where to use column filters: 'none': no filters, 'bottom' / 'top': put column filters at the bottom or top of the table.

table.pageLength

integer. Number of rows displayed on each page of the table.

data.download.button

logical. Dispay or not a button to download the dataset.

tabs.contents

character. A named list with the contents of the optional additional tabs. List elements' names are used as tab labels.

theme

character. Name of the shinytheme to use.

css

character. CSS code.

js

character. Javascript code.

Details

This function launches the 'spatialCatalogueViewer' application.

The dataframe for data has mandatory and optional columns: Mandatory: resource.name: Name of the resource (HTML contents is possible). coordinates: Either 'lon' and 'lat' columns or 4 columns named 'bbox.lon1', 'bbox.lat1', 'bbox.lon2', 'bbox.lat2' (where lon1 and lat1 refers to the north-west corner of the area and lon2 and lat2 to the south-east corner).

Optional: * resource.popup: HTML contents for the map pop-up.

Value

Launch the 'spatialCatalogueViewer' Shiny application.

Author(s)

Sebastien Plutniak <sebastien.plutniak at posteo.net>

See Also

DT leaflet leaflet.extra shiny shinytheme

Examples

    if(interactive()){
    df <- data.frame(lat = c(43.6033, 49.89441, 43.2974),
                     lon = c(1.4444,  2.29649, 5.3703),
                     resource.name = c("Toulouse", "Amiens", "Marseille"),
                     population = c(511684, 135429,  877215),
                     region = c("Occitanie", "Picardie", "Provence")
    )
    # launch the app:
    spatialCatalogueViewer(data = df,
                   map.set.lon = 2.37,  map.set.lat =  47.29, map.min.zoom = 5)
    }