Plotting study sites with Motus tower locations

[suehayes]

Does anyone have experience reading in KMZ or KML files in order to make a map of study sites with Motus Tower locations? I have tried using a couple of different packages (plotKML and sf) but have had no success.

[Patrick D. Lorch]

Hello Sue,

    I accidentally unsubscribed from the list, so cannot post there until they re-add me.  Have you tried something like 

st_write(features, "test.kml", driver='kml', update=TRUE)

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Does anyone have experience reading in KMZ or KML files in order to make a map of study sites with Motus Tower locations? I have tried using a couple of different packages (plotKML and sf) but have had no success.

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[fr_bedard]

Just open the KMZ or KML file in Google Earth (File ­ - Open) -and you will see your points with the Google Map satellite background.

If you would like to put other background or your own background layers, I suggest you use QGIS (an open source GIS software) - click LAYER > ADD LAYER > ADD VECTOR LAYER.  There are a lot of training videos on how to use QGIS to create your own map.

Frédéric

[jessica.gorzo]

Hi Sue,

Can you tell us what you tried with those packages in R? This should work...

sf::st_read("file.kml")

Let us know if you solved this,

[suehayes]

Thank you to all that responded. I did get a fix for this. The following worked:

sf::st_read("file.kml")

I am not clear why this worked over what I had (read_sf ("file.kml") but it seems to work now.

Thanks again

Sue