Finding Manitoba, Canada, quarter sections made easier

mbquartR is an R package for locating quarter sections in Manitoba using lat/long coordinates or the legal land descriptions using the Manitoba Original Survey Legal Descriptions data set from the DataMB website (https://geoportal.gov.mb.ca/).

Details

There are four main functions in this package:

1. Download the Manitoba Original Survey Legal Descriptions data set

• quarters_dl()

1. Search for legal land descriptions using lat and long coordinates

• search_coord()

1. Search for lat and long coordinates using legal land descriptions

• search_legal()

1. Plot search results on an interactive map

• map_quarter()

See also

Useful links:

• https://docs.ropensci.org/mbquartR/

• https://github.com/ropensci/mbquartR

• Report bugs at https://github.com/ropensci/mbquartR/issues

Author

Maintainer: Alex Koiter koitera@brandonu.ca (ORCID) (Associate Professor, Department of Geography and Environment, Brandon University https://alexkoiter.ca/)

Other contributors:

• Emily H Markowitz (Research Fisheries Biologist, Alaska Fisheries Science Center NOAA Fisheries | U.S. Department of Commerce. https://emilyhmarkowitz.github.io/emilyhmarkowitz Emily reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/658) [reviewer]

• Sheila M Saia (Environmental Data Scientist, Tetra Tech. https://sheilasaia.rbind.io/ Sheila reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/658) [reviewer]