[[!meta date="2017-10-17 20:35:40 +0800"]] [[!tag R spatial analysis visualisation]] How cool is this? A map of Western Australia with all state roads marked in only 5 lines of R! [[!format r """ WARoads <- st_read(dsn = "data/", layer = "RoadNetworkMRWA_514", stringsAsFactors = FALSE) WALocalities <- st_read(dsn = "data/", layer = "WA_LOCALITY_POLYGON_shp", stringsAsFactors = FALSE) ggplot(WALocalities) + geom_sf() + geom_sf(data = dplyr::filter(WARoads, network_ty == "State Road"), colour = "red") """]] [[Map of WA state roads|/pics/state-roads.png]] Courtesy of the development version of ggplot2 - geom_sf is not yet available in the version on CRAN.