mapview 2.11.4 (2025-09-05)

mapview 2.11.3 (2025-08-28)

bug fixes

  * HOTFIX: file attachments (fgb, css) now have valid names. e.g. #505

documentation etc

  * use proper package anchors as requested by CRAN.
  * update defunct URLs for selected data sets.


mapview 2.11.2 (2023-10-13)

miscellaneous

  * removed retired package rgdal. #446


mapview 2.11.1 (2023-10-12)

features and improvements

  * added mapshot2() which uses webshot2 package for screenshots.

bug fixes

  * when burst = TRUE popups were not correct. #396 & #408
  * recreated data crs with sf::st_crs() to avoid warnings ('old-style crs object detected; please recreate object with a recent sf::st_crs()'). #411
  * RasterBrick method now returns correct @object slot.

mapview 2.10.4

new features:

  * all methods now have a hide argument to hide layers at the first render.

mapview 2.10.3

new features:

  * use interpolated numeric legend also if number of unique values = 3.1.
  * new | operator to compare two maps side-by-side.

miscellaneous:

  * all deprecated functions are now defunct. See ?mapview-defunct.
  * drop viridisLite dependency and use base::hcl.colors() instead. We now depend on R >= 3.6.

mapview 2.7.8

new features:

  * new method for tiled image collections (created with e.g. gdal2tiles). #222
  * new method file path (currently vector only) without loading into R.
  * initial support for 'mapdeck' as a rendering platform.
  * mapshot now works for all and any htmlwidget.
  * new functions startWatching/stopWatching to automatically mapview all spatial objects in a given environment (default .GlobalEnv).

miscellaneous:

  * deprecated addStarsImage - now in package leafem. Thanks to Luigi Ranghetti #230
  * deprecated addExtent - now in package leafem. Thanks to Lorenzo Busetto #233
  * dropped Rcpp dependency.

bugfixes:

  * factor legends should now work as expected. #240

mapview 2.7.0

miscellaneous:

  * addMouseCoordinates now also displays native coordinates for leaflet maps. #205 - now moved to package leafem.
  * deprecated slideview, cubeview, latticeview & sync, plainview, popup* functions.
  * deprecated addFeatures, garnishMap, addHomeButton, addImageQuery, addLogo, addMouseCoordinates.

bugfixes:

  * mapview would return NULL if zcol was of type logic. #200

mapview 2.6.3

miscellaneous:

  * argument popup now also accepts FALSE in addition to NULL to suppress popups.
  * plainview argument legend now accepts a list describing the colorkey (see ?lattice::levelplot for details). #187
  * mapview popup css now has white background (for better leaflet integration).
  * NAMESPACE now registers S3method (knitr::knit_print) conditionally as requested by KH.

mapview 2.6.0

new features:

  * mapview has gained argument viewer.suppress to enable rendering in the browser.
  * popupTable has gained argument feature.id to choose whether to show or hide 'Feature ID' column. #182

bugfixes:

  * isFALSE (caused errors on R = 1.0.0
  * highlight now also accepts FALSE in addition to NULL to stop highlighting.

mapview 2.4.0

new features:

  * addImageQuery has gained argument prefix to modify the layerId prefix.
  * mapview methods for raster data have gained arguments label, query.type, query.digits, query.position and query.prefix to modify raster value query settings. https://twitter.com/pierreroudier/status/958476875344392193
  * popupTable now right aligns values.
  * Thanks to Pierre Roudier quantile strectching in viewRGB can now be turned off by simply setting to NULL. #127
  * mapshot has gained argument remove_controls to remove map junk when saving to image file format.
  * mapview method for data.frame has gained argument crs to enable rendering on a basemap #138
  * updated to work with leaflet 2.0.0 #129 (incl. deprecation of previously used large methods)
  * new function addMapPane to enable control over layer order.
  * mapview has gained argument pane as it now uses addMapPane to ensure points overlay lines overlay polygons.
  * mapview has gained argument canvas to enable canvas rendering.

bugfixes:

  * viewRGB failed because of missing method argument. #125
  * combineExtent didn't check properly for crs and failed for raster images.

mapview 2.3.0

new features:

  * popupTable has gained argument row.numbers to disable row numbers. #109
  * new function addStarsImage to visualise stars images.
  * new function addImageQuery to provide raster/stars value query on mouseover/click.
  * mapview has gained new argument method to specify the method used for resampling of raster data. #123

bugfixes:

  * raster method with native.crs = TRUE did throw an error on windows. #111
  * SpatialPixelsDataFrame and SpatialGridDataFrame failed because of missing map argument.
  * example for multiple popupImages was broken. #118
  * SpatialPixelsDataFrame failed when zcol was supplied. #124

misc:

  * added more details in description field as per request of Uwe Ligges.
  * moved leaflet from Depends to Imports.

mapview 2.2.0

new features:

  * if supported by the installed leaflet version, legends are now automatically linked to layers.
  * simple features with XYZ, XYM or XYZM geometries are now supported.
  * added function addExtent to add rectangles showing bbox/extent/outline of sf/sp/raster objects.
  * more concise internal recursive method dispatch.
  * if multiple layers are plotted (via "+") initial zoom is now on global extent and a "Zoom full" button is added to the map at the bottom left of the map to re-zoom to this global extent.
  * we now have mapview method for class 'data.frame' which enables interactive scatter plots.
  * we now have mapview method for class 'numeric' which enables interactive plots of a numeric variable.
  * updated slideView to accommodate more than one incident in a flexdashboard #95
  * if supplied data has only one attribute/field column mapview will now colour the plot automatically according to that attribute/field.
  * new mapview method for class 'bbox' -> mapview(st_bbox(x)) is equivalent to viewExtent(x)
  * plainview now provides mouse coordinates

enhancements:

  * added testthat suite of functions.
  * increased performance when using "+"-method (about 10x faster now).

bugfixes:

  * manifold bug fixes - addressing issues with list layers, alpha channel and many more.

mapview 2.1.4

new features:

  * popupImage now accepts more than one file name (list or vector) in argument img.

bugfixes:

  * na.alpha caused list/burst methods to fail.
  * legend did not work when zcol only had one unique value. This was actually a deliberate choice as for a single map it doesn't really make sense to have a legend for only one color. However, for latticeView/sync this does actually make sense, hence re-enabled.

mapview 2.1.0

new features:

  * plainview/cubeview now respects/has gained argument na.color.
  * mapview now supports st_GEOMETRY with truly mixed feature types (e.g. LINESTRING and POLYGON) - fixes #85
  * addFeatures(): one function to add them all. Type agnostic version of leaflet::add* functions for simple features objects.
  * mapview (for vector data only) has gained argument na.alpha to control opacity of missing values.

bugfixes:

  * deleted obsolete data.table import.
  * fixed #79: colnames of popup Tables are now converted to utf-8.
  * fixed #78: respect explicit setting of 'layer.name' argument.
  * included NEWS file as R-help doesn't render NEWS.md
  * highlight now respects alpha/alpha.regions = 0

mapview 2.0.1

new features:

  * addMouseCoordinates has gained argument 'style' to specify whether to show 'basic' (lat, lon, zoom) or 'detailed' (x, y, epsg, proj4, lat, lon, zoom) information. Factory-fresh default is 'detailed'.
  * addLogo has gained argument 'alpha' to set the opacity of the image.
  * Someone draws quickest...
  * added new method for list of objects so that we can do mapview(list(x, y, z)) which is great for computational outputs such as lapply.
  * slideView has gained arguments 'label1' and 'label2' to supply slider names for the respective images, img1 and img2.
  * new popup layout (making more use of the space available).
  * added new function addLargeFeatures to render large datasets of up to ~100k features which is used automatically. To lower/elevate the threshold use maxpoints = ... (See ?mapview for details).
  * mapview methods for all basic sf classes (XY/sfg, sfc, sf)
  * added support for sf to "+"
  * we can now render features/objects with arbitrary CRS (without map background) by setting 'native.crs = TRUE'.
  * mapview will now decide which default base map to use based on average luminence of rendered colors.
  * mapview now provides subtle highlighting of polygons (changing opacity slightly) and lines (changing thickness).
  * plainView, slideView and cubeView have gained argument legend. default is TRUE. Legends only available for non-RGB methods!
  * new data sets:

      - 'franconia' (administrative district boundaries of Franconia)
      - 'breweries' (extended version of the 'breweries91' data)
      - 'trails' (selected hiking trails in franconia to connect the breweries)

  * data sets 'breweries91', 'gadmCHE' and 'atlStorms2005' have been deleted and moved to leaflet.

bugfixes:

  * sync, addMouseCoordinates and addLogo did not work anymore. Now fixed thanks to @timelyportfolio

changes:

  * MAJOR internal change: All vector data are now processed as sf objects internally. This also means that objects returned in slot @object will be of class sf (regardless of input class).
  * polygons and points now have a darkish gray line frame (unless add*LargeFeatures is used - where the overhead of passing two sets of colors would be too high).
  * updated examples (in line with new data).
  * github repository moved from https://github.com/environmentalinformatics-marburg/mapview to https://github.com/r-spatial/mapview

mapview 1.2.0

new features:

  * garnishMap: function to add multiple decoration elements, such as leaflet::addLayersControl or addHomeButton to a map (mainly for internal use).
  * addHomeButton: add a zoom-to-layer button to a map.
  * addLogo: add an image to a map.
  * plainview now shows CRS and dimension info.

bugfixes:

  * na.color was not respected for Raster* and SpatialPiXelsDF.
  * removed lat and lon entries in popupTable for polygons as we now have mousecoordinates.
  * for raster objects the legend did not respect the intervals specified by 'at'.
  * mapview working again for objects with no projection (NA).
  * mapview for SPoints* with only one point did through an error #36.

mapview 1.1.0

new features:

  * addMouseCoordinates: add cursor position information to mapview or leaflet map. (thanks to Kent Russell).
  * if available from leaflet version, a scalebar is added to the map.
  * latticeView: view mapview or leaflet maps as small multiples and sync some, all or none (thanks to Kent Russell).
  * sync: synchronise two or more leaflet maps (thanks to Kenton Russell).
  * mapshot: to save maps as html page or static image or both.
  * knitr integration (i.e. no need to call the @map slot anymore to render in knitr).
  * cubeView: view raster bricks or stacks hovmoeller style, use keys up & down, left & right, page up & page down to navigate through y, x, z dimensions, respectively.
  * labels: if zcol is set, mouseover will now show the respective values of zcol, if zcol is not set moseover shows feature ID. Only available if suitable leaflet package version is installed.
  * new popup functions popupTable, popupGraph and popupImage.
  * functions to turn coordinates into spatial lines or spatial polygons.
  * mapview objects now work natively on shiny applications (i.e. renderMapview and mapviewOutput now available).
  * "zcol = Var" in combination with burst = TRUE now plots one layer for each unique value of the variable supplied to zcol.

changes:

  * spplot method has been removed.
  * colors: viridis based colors now default if viridisLite package is available.
  * basemaps: new default basemap is "CartoDB.Positron" as colors of features are better visible on the grey background.
  * layer names now include the name of the object they originate from (e.g. "meuse lead" instead of "lead").

bugfixes:

  * if attribute was of class "character" mapview did through an error if passed to zcol.
  * user provided layer names were not respected when zcol was set. See also note on changes in default layer names.

mapview 1.0.0

* Initial release
