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write out spatial data for collections to Google Earth or QGIS

geodata_writer.Rd

This function will write out a simple labeled vector data (ala a 'shapefile') containing just collection number. More data (e.g. species) can be written out using sf::st_write directly. See ?sf those details. The function defaults to writing Google Earth KML files because these can be viewed online without having to to have a local install of the program.

Usage

geodata_writer(x, path, filename, filetype)

Arguments

x

a data frame(/sf/tibble) which has at least undergone the 'dms2dd' and 'coords2sf' functions from BarnebyLives.

path

a location to save the data to. If not supplied defaults to the current working directory.

filename

name of file. if not supplied defaults to appending todays date to 'Collections'

filetype

a file format to save the data to. This is a wrapper for sf::st_write and will support all drivers used there. If not supplied defaults to kml for use with Google Earth.