Find US Census Bureau TIGER Road Networks

findRoads returns a SpatialLinesDataFrame of TIGER road networks cropped to an Area of Interest. This dataset is accessed through the US Census geo portal and contains the following attributes:

• 'LINEARID' : character Linear feature identifier

• 'FULLNAME' : character Feature Name

• 'RTTYP': character Route Type Code

• 'MTFCC' : character Road Classification

  • S1100 Primary Roads

  • R1011 Railroad Feature (Main, Spur, or Yard)

  • R1051 Carline, Streetcar Track, Monorail, Other Mass Transit Rail)

  • R1052 Cog Rail Line, Incline Rail Line, Tram

  • S1100 Primary Road

  • S1200 Secondary Road

findRoads(AOI = FALSE)

Arguments

AOI	A Spatial* or simple features geometry, can be piped from getAOI

Value

a list() of minimum length 2: AOI and tiger

Examples

# NOT RUN {
AOI  = getAOI(clip = list("UCSB", 10, 10)) %>% findRoads()
# }