getdata_bc {rasterbc}

Download data from the rasterbc collection

Description

Downloads all mapsheet layers (geoTIFFs) covering the geographical extent of geo for the specified collection, varname, and year. Input geo can be a vector of (4-character) NTS/SNRC mapsheet codes or a geometry of class sfc.

Usage

getdata_bc(
  geo = NULL,
  collection = NULL,
  varname = NULL,
  year = NULL,
  force.dl = FALSE,
  quiet = FALSE
)

Arguments

geo

vector of character strings (NTS/SNRC codes) or a geometry of class sfc

collection

character string indicating the data collection to query

varname

character string indicating the layer to query

year

integer indicating the year to query (if applicable)

force.dl

logical indicating whether to overwrite any existing data

quiet

logical, suppresses console messages

Details

The data files are written to the directory returned by rasterbc::datadir_bc(). Mapsheets found there (already downloaded) are not downloaded again unless force.dl==TRUE. Users should only need to download a mapsheet once - there are no plans to update the rasterbc collection in the future.

Value

a vector of character string(s) containing the absolute path(s) to the downloaded file(s)

See Also

findblocks_bc to identify which mapsheets will be downloaded

listdata_bc for a list of available collections, variable names, years

Examples

# define a location of interest, and a polygon around it then fetch the corresponding DEM data
input.point = sf::st_point(c(x=-120.1, y=50.1)) |> sf::st_sfc(crs='EPSG:4326')

if( requireNamespace('units', quietly = TRUE) ) {
input.polygon = input.point |> sf::st_buffer(units::set_units(10, km))

## Not run: 
# the following downloads data from FRDR
block.path = getdata_bc(input.point, 'dem')
getdata_bc(input.polygon, 'dem')

# load one of the mapsheets
terra::rast(block.path)

## End(Not run)
}