get_municipalities {geofi}

Get Finnish municipality (multi)polygons for different years and/or scales.

Description

Thin wrapper around Finnish zip code areas provided by Statistics Finland.

Usage

get_municipalities(year = 2024, scale = 4500, codes_as_character = FALSE)

Arguments

year

A numeric for year of the administrative borders. Available are 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.

scale

A scale or resolution of the shape. Two options: 1000 equals 1:1 000 000 and 4500 equals 1:4 500 000.

codes_as_character

A logical determining if the region codes should be returned as strings of equal width as originally provided by Statistics Finland instead of integers.

Value

sf object

Author(s)

Markus Kainu [e-mail], Joona Lehtomäki [e-mail]

Examples

 ## Not run: 
 f <- get_municipalities(year=2016, scale = 4500)
 plot(f)
 
## End(Not run)