Function reference • bcmaps

B.C. Layers

Various administrative and natural resource boundaries of B.C.

available_layers(): List available data layers

get_layer(): Get a B.C. spatial layer

airzones(): British Columbia Air Zones

bc_bound(): BC Boundary

bc_bound_hres(): BC Boundary - High Resolution

bc_cities(): BC Major Cities Points

bec(): British Columbia BEC Map

census_dissemination_area(): Current Census Dissemination Areas

census_division(): Current Census Division Boundaries

census_economic(): Current Census Economic Region Boundaries

census_metropolitan_area(): Current Census Metropolitan Areas

census_subdivision(): Current Census Subdivision Boundaries

census_tract(): Current Census Tract Boundaries

ecoprovinces(): British Columbia Ecoprovinces

ecoregions(): British Columbia Ecoregions

ecosections(): British Columbia Ecosections

fsa(): British Columbia Forward Sortation Areas

gw_aquifers(): British Columbia's developed ground water aquifers

health_chsa(): Community Health Service Areas - CHSA

health_ha(): Health Authority Boundaries

health_hsda(): Health Service Delivery Area Boundaries

health_lha(): Local Health Area Boundaries

hydrozones(): Hydrologic Zone Boundaries of British Columbia

mapsheets_250K(): NTS 250K Grid - Digital Baseline Mapping at 1:250,000 (NTS)

mapsheets_50K(): NTS 50K Grid - Digital Baseline Mapping at 1:50,000 (NTS)

municipalities(): British Columbia Municipalities

nr_areas(): British Columbia Natural Resource (NR) Areas

nr_districts(): British Columbia Natural Resource (NR) Districts

nr_regions(): British Columbia Natural Resource (NR) Regions

regional_districts(): British Columbia Regional Districts

tsa(): British Columbia Timber Supply Areas and TSA Blocks

water_districts(): British Columbia's Water Management Districts

water_precincts(): British Columbia's Water Management Precincts

watercourses_15M(): British Columbia watercourses at 1:15M scale

watercourses_5M(): British Columbia watercourses at 1:5M scale

wsc_drainages(): Water Survey of Canada Sub-Sub-Drainage Areas

Canadian Digital Elevation Data (CDED)

Digital Elevation Model (DEM) of British Columbia

cded(): Canadian Digital Elevation Model (CDED)

cded_stars(): Get Canadian Digital Elevation Model (CDED) as a stars object

cded_terra(): Get Canadian Digital Elevation Model (CDED) as a terra object

vrt_files(): List the files that a vrt is built on

vrt_info(): Get metadata about a .vrt file

Cache Management

Utilities to manage your cached layers

delete_cache() show_cached_files(): View and delete cached files

Utility functions

Various utility functions for working with BC data

bc_area(): The size of British Columbia

bc_bbox(): Get an extent/bounding box for British Columbia

transform_bc_albers(): Transform a Spatial* object to BC Albers projection

utm_convert(): Convert a data.frame of UTM coordinates to an sf object with a single CRS

combine_nr_rd(): Combine Northern Rockies Regional Municipality with Regional Districts

bc_neighbours(): Boundary of British Columbia, provinces/states and the portion of the Pacific Ocean that borders British Columbia

bec_colours() bec_colors(): Biogeoclimatic Zone Colours

Raster utilities

Functions for specific raster operations

raster_by_poly(): Overlay a SpatialPolygonsDataFrame or sf polygons layer on a raster layer and clip the raster to each polygon. Optionally done in parallel

summarize_raster_list(): Summarize a list of rasters into a list of numeric vectors