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I may be wrong but think the issue is the difference between using proj4 strings as coordinate reference systems, or as coordinate transformations. If we use them as CRS, they...

pkg libproj made the proj sources part of the package, which sounds attractive because you loose the need to install proj besides R when doing source installs, but which also...

> Out of curiosity, what's the design distinction between tmap and mapsf that would help me and others understand why to pursue one or the other? `tmap`, `ggplot2` and `ggspatial`...

Hi Robin. I don't understand what you exactly mean by "future proof". For instance, `sf` requires that GDAL >= 2.0.1. That is the lowest version I managed to compile against...

Nice topic! > we have terabytes of remotely acquired data, I think a major challenge is that we have petabytes rather than terabytes of RS data, and that that requires...

For the part (sf -> data.frame, sp -> data.frame), I think it makes more sense to have this as part of the sf and sp APIs, i.e. inside the packages....

https://twitter.com/TimSalabim3/status/1244885177018376194

Fair enough. Which functions in leaflet does this concern?

I see this similar to [s2](https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/issues/502) cells and [geohash](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geohash); dedicated optimizations where you can afford some rounding and bandwidth is an issue. This one aims at communicating with the google...

Thanks, Markus! We could propose an "R Spatial" OSGEO project consisting of a set of R packages, for instance those on this GH organisation + sp/rgdal/rgeos, while being open for...