INSPIRE grids

Retrieve geometries of INSPIRE-compliant grid geometries (also called "GeoGitter"). bkg_grid_fast() is much faster than bkg_grid_full() by downloading heavily compressed versions grids. This happens at the cost of data richness as bkg_grid_fast() only contains the geometries and nothing else. Note that the arrow package needs to be installed to use bkg_grid_fast().

Note that the output contains point geometries. Most of the times, you want to work with rasters instead. To convert a given object out, type the following (terra package required):

terra::rast(out)

These functions interface the GeoGitter product of the BKG.

Usage

bkg_grid_fast(
  year = c("2019", "2018", "2017", "2015"),
  resolution = c("100km", "10km", "5km", "1km", "250m", "100m"),
  timeout = 600,
  update_cache = FALSE
)

bkg_grid_full(
  year = "latest",
  resolution = c("100km", "10km", "5km", "1km", "250m", "100m"),
  timeout = 600,
  update_cache = FALSE
)

Arguments

year

Version of the grid. Can be "2015", "2017", "2018" or "2019". For bkg_grid_fast, "latest" downloads the latest version of the grid.

resolution

Cell size of the grid. Can be "100m", "250m", "1km", "5km", "10km", or "100km".

timeout

Timeout value for the data download passed to req_timeout. Adjust this if your internet connection is slow or you are downloading larger datasets.

update_cache

By default, downloaded files are cached in the tempdir() directory of R. When downloading the same data again, the data is not downloaded but instead taken from the cache. Sometimes this can be not the desired behavior. If you want to overwrite the cache, pass TRUE. Defaults to FALSE, i.e. always adopt the cache if possible.

Value

bkg_grid_fast returns an sf dataframe with point geometries and no features. bkg_grid_full also returns point geometries but with the following additional features:

• x_sw: X coordinate of the South-West corner of a grid cell

• y_sw: Y coordinate of the South-West corner of a grid cell

• f_staat: State area in the grid cell in square meters

• f_land: Land area in the grid cell in square meters

• f_wasser: Water area in the grid cell in square meters

• p_staat: Share of state area in the grid cell

• p_land: Share of land area in the grid cell

• p_wasser: Share of water area in the grid cell

• ags: Official municipality key (Amtlicher Gemeindeschlüssel). Related to the ARS but shortened to omit position 6 to 9. Structured as follows:

  • Position 1-2: Federal state

  • Position 3: Government region

  • Position 4-5: District

  • Position 6-8: Municipality

Note that ags is only included for resolutions "100m" and "250m"

Details

The following table gives a rough idea of how much less data bkg_grid_fast needs to download for each resolution compared to bkg_grid_full.

Size	fast	full
100km	0.78 kB	933 kB
10km	2.68 kB	1,015 kB
5km	3.53 kB	1,253 kB
1km	28.7 kB	5,249 kB
500m	133 kB	15,902 kB
250m	289 kB	53,900 kB
100m	1,420 kB	291,000 kB

See also

GeoGitter documentation

GeoGitter MIS record

Other non-administrative regions: bkg_authorities(), bkg_kfz(), bkg_ror()

Examples

# Return a bare-bones version of the INSPIRE grid
grid <- bkg_grid_fast(year = "2019", resolution = "100km")

# Return a fully detailed version instead
grid_full <- bkg_grid_full(resolution = "5km")

plot(grid)


# Convert grid to SpatRaster
if (requireNamespace("terra")) {
  library(terra)
  raster <- rast(vect(grid_full["p_wasser"]), type = "xyz")
  plot(raster, main = "Share of water area")
}
#> terra 1.8.70