Spatial types /sf methods

[noamross]

See

• https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2022-02-09-spatial-types/
• https://r-spatial.github.io/sf/articles/sf2.html
• https://github.com/r-spatial/sf/blob/5dde39c8261dc6b202e6cde9d41ad3bf0f46aa3a/R/db.R

[n8layman]

Need mysql sf methods

[noamross]

It would be neat to have an example for this that pulls two versions of a spatial data set and compares them by plotting one on the other and/or using stuff in https://r-spatial.github.io/sf/reference/geos_binary_ops.html

[noamross]

Possible example to generate - make a db with multiple versions of the naturalearth dataset (probably one of the simpler 110M resolution datasets):

• https://github.com/nvkelso/natural-earth-vector/blob/master/CHANGELOG
• https://www.naturalearthdata.com/downloads/