Get the municipalities geometries — spod_quick_get

This function fetches the municipalities (for now this is the only option) geometries from the mapas-movilidad website and returns a sf object with the municipalities geometries. This is intended for use with the flows data retrieved by the spod_quick_get_od() function. An interactive web map with this data is available at https://mapas-movilidad.transportes.gob.es/. These municipality geometries only include Spanish municipalities (and not the NUTS3 regions in Portugal and France) and do not contain extra columns that you can get with the spod_get_zones() function. The function caches the retrieved geometries in memory of the current R session to reduce the number of requests to the mapas-movilidad website.

For detailed zone definitions and methodology, see Ministerio de Transportes, Movilidad y Agenda Urbana (MITMA) (2021). Análisis de la movilidad en España con tecnología Big Data durante el estado de alarma para la gestión de la crisis del COVID-19 (Analysis of mobility in Spain with Big Data technology during the state of alarm for COVID-19 crisis management). https://cdn.mitma.gob.es/portal-web-drupal/covid-19/bigdata/mitma_-_estudio_movilidad_covid-19_informe_metodologico_v3.pdf. for v1 data and Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible (MITMS) (2024). Estudio de movilidad de viajeros de ámbito nacional aplicando la tecnología Big Data. Informe metodológico (Study of National Traveler mobility Using Big Data Technology. Methodological Report). https://www.transportes.gob.es/recursos_mfom/paginabasica/recursos/a3_informe_metodologico_estudio_movilidad_mitms_v8.pdf. for v2 data.

Usage

spod_quick_get_zones(zones = "municipalities")

Arguments

zones: A character string specifying the zones to retrieve. Valid values are "municipalities", "muni", "municip", and "municipios". Defaults to "municipalities".

Value

A sf object with the municipalities geometries to match with the data retrieved with spod_quick_get_od().

References

Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible (MITMS) (2024). “Estudio de la movilidad con Big Data (Study of mobility with Big Data).” Data License: https://www.transportes.gob.es/el-ministerio/buen-gobierno/licencia_datos, https://www.transportes.gob.es/ministerio/proyectos-singulares/estudio-de-movilidad-con-big-data.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # interactive()
# \donttest{
municipalities_sf <- spod_quick_get_zones()
# }
}