Displaying any Google Maps Content in Google Earth via Network-Links

This is a handy option for displaying Google Maps in Google Earth. This could be any of your own maps created in Google Maps, a route or whatever. One nice feature of GE's Network-Links is that if you or any other contributor of a Google map modifies it (in Google Maps), it will be refreshed also in Google Earth.To do so, just grab the link from Google Maps. Like this one for a route:

https://maps.google.at/maps?saddr=Tivoli+Stadion+Tirol,+Innsbruck&daddr=Haggen,+Sankt+Sigmund+im+Sellrain&hl=de&ll=47.227496,11.250687&spn=0.12007,0.338173&sll=47.230526,11.250825&sspn=0.120063,0.338173&geocode=FagR0QIdYR-uACGQHB8W0fIkjCkfsEUhQ2mdRzGQHB8W0fIkjA%3BFZhY0AId6CypACnvxXqyRz2dRzG6da9r3hgbNA&oq=hagge&t=h&dirflg=h&mra=ls&z=12


Then go to GE and choose "Add" from main menu and "Network-Link" from the submenu. Then paste the above link and append "&output=kml" to it. That's it!

Use IUCN API with R & XPath

Thanks to a posting on R-sig-eco mailing list I learned of the IUCN-API. Here's a simple example for what can be done with it (output as pdf is HERE):

A Short Example with R-Package osmar..

Following up my last post in which I praised the capabilities of the osmar-package I give a short example...

ps: You can also find this example at GitHub HERE.

Some Fun with googleVis - Mapping Blog Visits on Google Map

See stand-alone code to produce this map below.

Producing Google Map Embeds with R Package googleVis

(1) for producing html code for a Google Map with R-package googleVis do something like:

 

library(googleVis)
df <- data.frame(Address = c("Innsbruck", "Wattens"),
                 Tip = c("My Location 1", "My Location 2"))
mymap <- gvisMap(df, "Address", "Tip", options = list(showTip = TRUE, mapType = "normal",
                 enableScrollWheel = TRUE))
plot(mymap) # preview

(2) then just copy-paste the html to your blog or website after customizing for your purpose..

Retrieve GBIF Species Occurrence Data with Function from dismo Package

..The dismo package is awesome: with some short lines of code you can read & map species distribution data from GBIF (the global biodiversity information facility) easily:

..A Quick Geo-Trick for GoogleMaps in R (using dismo)

... I thought this geocoding-bit might be worth sharing (found HERE when searching the web for dismo-documentation).

A Simple Example for the Use of Shapefiles in R

A simple example for drawing an occurrence-map (polygons with species' points) with the R-packages maptools and sp using shapefiles.
HERE is the example data.

Nice Species Distribution Maps with GBIF-Data in R

Here's an example of how to easily produce real nice distribution maps from GBIF-data in R with package maps...