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maptiles 0.7.0

This release is a refactoring of the package, functions has been exploded to be better tested and inspected.

fix

• update tests with valid provider
• remove (not functioning) Esri Delorme provider
• better management of cache, tiles and composed raster are cached (huge speed gain)
• remove the gdal-based merging mechanism, not efficient anymore.

feat

• improve doc in create_provider() for wms inspection (#22 @paul-carteron)
• add *.webp tile extension support (#28 @tadhg-moore)
• change the output of verbose
• cache composed raster for future use
• API keys management for Stadia and Thunderforest with env variable

maptiles 0.6.1

fix

• deactivate get_tiles() example due to unpredictable download time leading to CRAN note/rejection…

maptiles 0.6.0

fix

• remove various unreliable provider (OpenStreetMap.MapnikBW, HikeBike, Wikimedia, OpenStreetMap.NoLabels…)
• update openstreetmap provider url (#23)
• update stamen provider to stadia (#24)
• fix forceDownload mechanism (force replace *.tif files)

feat

• new function create_provider() to create provider
• use a better mechanism for apikey

maptiles 0.5.0

fix

• do not discard the crs of SpatRaster and SpatVector (@rhijmans #19)
• no buffer is applied on input sf* object extent when crop = TRUE anymore

feat

• add a project argument to get_tiles() to output SpatRaster in its original projection (part of @rhijmans #20)

test

• better test suite

maptiles 0.4.0

Bug fixes

• Fix issue that stopped downloading tile sets that span different orders of magnitude
• Fix error message from GDAL for raster with nodata values
• Allow ‘jpeg’ tile extension
• Fail gracefully if the tile server is not responding

maptiles 0.3.0

Minor changes

• Change projection management, faster with 3857 now
• Add adjust argument to plot_tiles() to plot the raster without zoom-in or zoom-out in the graphic device
• Modify attribution of Stamen maps

maptiles 0.2.0

Minor changes

• Suppress warnings for png files
• Use sf::gdal_utils to merge tiles, the operation is really faster.

maptiles 0.1.3

Minor changes

Lower gdal dependancy

maptiles 0.1.2

Minor changes

• Added a NEWS.md file to track changes to the package.
• Added URL and BugReports links
• Better tiles display
• Allow to use terra::plot() with tiles
• Added SpatRaster and SpatVector support in get_tiles()

Bug fixes

• Added alpha channel to display transparents tiles

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