Bad map

Michael

3 weeks ago

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Bad Kreuznach, Germany – CC-BY-NC by Billy Wilson

Day 4 of 30DayMapChallenge: « Bad map » (previously).

A map of all populated places containing the word “Bad” from Geonames.

library(tidyverse)
library(leaflet)
library(httr)
library(fs)

gn_file <- "~/data/geonames/allCountries.zip"

if (!file_exists(gn_file)) {
  GET("http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCountries.zip",
      write_disk(gn_file))
}

gn <- read_delim(gn_file, 
                 delim = "\t", 
                 col_names = c("geonameid",     
                               "name",          
                               "asciiname",     
                               "alternatenames",
                               "latitude",      
                               "longitude",     
                               "feature_class", 
                               "feature_code",  
                               "country_code",  
                               "cc2",           
                               "admin1_code",   
                               "admin2_code",   
                               "admin3_code",   
                               "admin4_code",   
                               "population",    
                               "elevation",     
                               "dem",           
                               "timezone",      
                               "modification_date"))

bad <- gn |> 
  filter(str_detect(feature_code, "^PPL"),
         str_detect(asciiname, "\\b[Bb]ad\\b")) 

bad |> 
  leaflet() |> 
  addCircleMarkers(popup = ~ name) |> 
  addTiles()

Figure 1: Bad map

So we have 471 “Bad” populated places…

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