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Example bowerbird data source: Microsoft US Buildings

Source: R/example_sources.R
bb_source_us_buildings.Rd

This function constructs a data source definition for the Microsoft US Buildings data set. This data set contains 124,885,597 computer generated building footprints in all 50 US states. NOTE: currently, the downloaded zip files will not be unzipped automatically. Work in progress.

Usage

bb_source_us_buildings(states)

Arguments

states

character: (optional) one or more US state names for which to download data. If missing, data from all states will be downloaded. See the reference page for valid state names

Value

a tibble with columns as specified by bb_source

References

https://github.com/Microsoft/USBuildingFootprints

See also

bb_example_sources, bb_config, bb_handler_rget

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## define a configuration and add this buildings data source to it
##  only including data for the District of Columbia and Hawaii
cf <- bb_config(tempdir()) %>%
  bb_add(bb_source_us_buildings(states = c("District of Columbia", "Hawaii")))

## synchronize (download) the data
bb_sync(cf)
}