Showing posts with label saveHTML. Show all posts
Showing posts with label saveHTML. Show all posts
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Next Level Web Scraping
The outcome presented above will not be very useful to most of you - still, this could be a good example for what possibly can be done via webscraping in R.
Background: TIRIS is the federal geo-statistical service of North-Tyrol, Austria. One of many great things it provides are historical and recent aerial photographs. These photographs can be addressed via URL's. This is the basis of the script: the URL's are retrieved, some parameters are adjusted, using the customized addresses images are downloaded and animated by saveHTML from the Animation-Package. The outcome (HTML-Animation) enables you to view and skip through aerial photographs of any location in North-Tyrol, from the year 1940 to 2010, and see how the landscape, buildings, etc. have changed...
View the script HERE.
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