The north side of the City sits opposite a group of islands on the Illinois side of the Mississippi, some of which are included in the Illinois Hydrology layer. The largest of these islands, Mosenthein Island, is described by these data. These data can be previewed interactively using the .geoJSON file in this repository.
The gateway package can be used to download and import these data as a simple feature object:
islands <- gateway::gw_get_repo("IL_HYDRO_Islands")The openGIS Project is a faculty-student collaboration at SLU organized by Christopher Prener, Ph.D.. The goal of the project is to produce publicly available spatial data about the St. Louis region.
The SLU Data Science Seminar (DSS) is a collaborative, interdisciplinary group at Saint Louis University focused on building researchers’ data science skills using open source software. We currently host seminars focused on the programming language R. The SLU DSS is co-organized by Christina Gacia, Ph.D., Kelly Lovejoy, Ph.D., and Christopher Prener, Ph.D.. You can keep up with us here on GitHub, on our website, and on Twitter.
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