terrainr 0.4.1

• Improvements and bug fixes:
  • get_tiles now displays a bulleted list of endpoints (again?), rather than a jumble of raw markdown
  • add_bbox_buffer properly sets the CRS of the output when attempting to buffer geodesic coordinates.
  • Typo fixes to an error message in combine_overlays
• Internal changes:
  • Added importFrom tag to terrainr-package.R to silence R CMD CHECK NOTE.

terrainr 0.4.0

• Breaking changes:
  • Three changes in how vector_to_overlay deals with missing CRS in vector_data:
    • A new argument, error_crs, behaves just like error_crs in add_bbox: if NULL, the function will give a warning when assuming CRS; if FALSE, the function will assume a CRS silently, and if TRUE, the function will error if vector_data is missing a CRS.
    • target_crs has been removed. vector_data will be given the CRS of reference_raster if it doesn’t have its own CRS, and will always be projected to the CRS of reference_raster.
    • error_crs has been added to mirror add_bbox_buffer: if NULL and your input data has no CRS, vector_to_overlay will warn about assuming the raster CRS. Set to TRUE to error or FALSE to ignore the warning.
  • NAIP imagery is now downloaded with transparent = "false" to minimize the number of times the backup method to merge_rasters (see below) is called. To restore the old behavior, set transparent = "true" in either get_tiles or hit_national_map_api.
  • get_tiles will now infer bboxSR and imageSR from provided sf or Raster objects if not otherwise specified. To restore the old behavior, set bboxSR and imageSR to 4326 in get_tiles (or set your data’s CRS to 4326 before calling get_tiles).
• Improvements and bug fixes:
  • merge_rasters can once again handle merging mixed-band rasters (such as NAIP images with and without alpha bands). At the moment this is using the older, slower implementation and will raise a warning. (#30, #32).
• Internal changes:
  • Removed code to check for ggplot2 from vector_to_overlay now that ggplot2 is required
  • calc_haversine_distance (not exported) now assumes it’s been provided with degrees. coord_units has been removed as an argument.
  • get_tiles.terrainr_bounding_box has been removed; it should no longer be possible for users to have terrainr_bounding_box objects unless they were using non-exported functionality.

terrainr 0.3.1

• First CRAN submission!
• This is the smallest of patch releases, with almost no user-facing changes.
• Internal changes:
  • Added rOpenSci reviewers to DESCRIPTION.
  • Changed USGS API link to new website.
  • Added rOpenSci badge to README.
  • Changed most PNG images to slightly smaller JPGs.
  • Edited URLs for new rOpenSci website.
  • Moved lifecycle badge href to new site.
  • Some small spelling issues have been fixed.
  • Added tags to non-exported point_to_distance and terrainr_bounding_box functions
  • Added single quotes around Unity in the DESCRIPTION

terrainr 0.3.0

• Breaking changes:
  • terrainr_* classes have been effectively removed and are no longer exported. Functions which previously expected these objects now generally accept sf and Raster class objects instead. Functions which previously returned these objects now generally return sf objects instead (#24).
  • The list returned by get_tiles now uses the service names provided by the user, not the endpoint names. This means that get_tiles(..., services = "elevation") will now use the name elevation instead of 3DEPElevation, and remain standard across versions (#12).
  • get_bbox and get_coordinate_bbox have been removed. Functions that used to expect terrainr_bounding_box objects now accept objects of class sf or raster (#24).
  • add_bbox_buffer loses the divisible argument. For precise control over side length, use set_bbox_side_length (which should be more accurate, if slightly more conservative, than the divisible system ever was) (#17).
  • convert_distance has been removed (internally replaced by the units package) (#7).
  • merge_rasters loses the input_images and output_image function, as most downloaded files are now already georeferenced. To recreate this functionality, georeference image tiles directly via output <- georeference_overlay(img_tiles, ref_tiles, tempfile(fileext = ".tif")) and then provide output to merge_rasters.
  • A handful of utility functions are no longer exported:
    • calc_haversine_distance
    • point_from_distance
    • rad_to_deg
    • deg_to_rad
• New features:
  • Two new functions, geom_spatial_rgb and stat_spatial_rgb, allow you to use RGB map tiles as backgrounds for further plotting.
  • calc_haversine_distance gains an argument coord_units allowing it to handle coordinates in radians as well as degrees.
• Improvements and bug fixes:
  • georeference_overlay provides tempfile(fileext = ".tif") as a default output location if no output_file is provided.
  • get_tiles now tells you what tiles it’s retrieving, not retriving.
• Internal changes:
  • calc_haversine_distance has been internally simplified somewhat to reduce code duplication.
  • All services arguments to hit_national_map_api and get_tiles can now handle both base64 and binary returns, removing the need to manually categorize endpoints (54ad9fb).
    • hit_national_map_api auto-detects whether API endpoints are returning base64 or binary and handles them appropriately
    • get_tiles now auto-detects whether hit_national_map_api is returning base64 or binary and writes to file appropriately.
  • hit_national_map_api is now more likely to fail with a human-friendly error message if API endpoints return a non-200 status (54ad9fb).
  • hit_national_map_api (and by extension get_tiles) now register a user agent.
• Changes in dependencies:
  • gdalUtilities has been removed, with functionality replaced by sf.
  • rlang has been removed, with functionality removed.
  • units has been added.
  • ggplot2 has been moved to Imports (was previously in Suggests) due to the new geom_spatial_rgb and stat_spatial_rgb functions.

terrainr 0.2.1

• Improvements and bug fixes:
  • The transportation endpoint has moved servers, and is now handled by the same function that handles DEMs and orthoimages
• Internal changes:
  • The main branch of terrainr is now main
  • Tests run on a schedule on Monday/Wednesday/Friday mornings, to alert to endpoint changes
  • Restyled code

terrainr 0.2.0

• Breaking changes:
  • merge_rasters loses the argument merge_raster. For the “georeference a single image” use case, see the new georeference_overlay function.
  • get_tiles gains an argument resolution (details below) between side_length and services. No functionality should be changed, but code with unnamed arguments to services, verbose, or georeference may be impacted.
• New features:
  • A new family of functions for dealing with overlay creation:
    • vector_to_overlay lets users quickly produce image overlays from vector data.
    • georeference_overlay replaces the use of merge_raster for creating single-file georeferenced overlay files.
    • combine_overlays lets users, well, combine overlays into a single image
  • get_tiles gains an argument, resolution, specifying the number of meters each pixel should represent (so higher images result in smaller downloads).
  • get_bbox provides an S3 generic to create terrainr_bounding_box objects. In this version, that means users can use get_bbox to get bounding boxes from sf and RasterLayer objects, and it means adding methods will be easier going forward. The generic get_bbox method is equivalent to get_coord_bbox
  • raster_to_raw_tiles handles rectangles appropriately
• Improvements and bug fixes:
  • get_tiles, raster_to_raw_tiles, and merge_rasters are now much more conscientious about deleting tempfiles when they’re done with them.
  • merge_rasters no longer fails when handed a mix of 3- and 4-band raster files. The current implementation will cast all 4 band rasters to 3 band images and then return a 3 band raster image.
  • The output_image argument to merge_rasters now has a default value of tempfile(fileext = ".tif") to be a little more friendly to users.
  • Arguments lat and lng to get_bbox (and get_coord_bbox) no longer need to be quoted – either the tidyverse-feeling NSE approach or the more standard quoted argument approach will work.
• Internal changes:
  • All terrainr-provided functions now explicitly use the terrainr:: namespace.
• Changes in dependencies:
  • sf has been added as an explicit import due to vector_to_overlay. sf is required by gdalUtilities, also imported by this package, so this change should have no impact on users.
  • rlang is added as a dependency to allow lat and lng be unquoted in get_bbox.
  • ggplot2 has been added to Suggests due to vector_to_overlay.
  • jpeg and tiff have been added to Suggests due to georeference_overlay. I’d expect more image libraries to join this list over time.

terrainr 0.1.0

• New features:
  • set_bbox_side_length wraps add_bbox_buffer to set each side of the bounding box to an equal length (within ~1% accuracy)
• First version released on GitHub

terrainr 0.0.0.9001

• First development version
• Supports retrieval from 3DEP and NAIP data sources
• Supports export to Unity-friendly format
• Functions in this version:
  • Utility functions:
    • add_bbox_buffer
    • calc_haversine_distance
    • convert_distance
    • deg_to_rad
    • get_bbox_centroid
    • get_coord_bbox
    • point_from_distance
    • rad_to_deg
  • Data retrieval functions:
    • get_tiles
    • hit_national_map_api
  • Data processing functions:
    • merge_rasters
    • raster_to_raw_tiles
  • Classes and class utility functions:
    • terrainr_bounding_box (class)
    • terrainr_coordinate_pair (class)
    • terrainr_bounding_box (creation utility)
    • terrainr_coordinate_pair (creation utility)
    • export_bounding_box
    • export_coord_pair