Get electric car charging point data from OSM

[Robinlovelace]

See below:

library(osmextract)
#> Data (c) OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0. https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright.
#> Check the package website, https://docs.ropensci.org/osmextract/, for more details.

# get help on getting data
?oe_get

q = "SELECT * FROM 'points' WHERE amenity IN ('charging_station')"
extra_tags = "amenity"
region_name = "Isle of Wight"
electric_charging_points = oe_get(place = region_name, query = q, extra_tags = extra_tags)
#> The input place was matched with: Isle of Wight
#> Warning: The query selected a layer which is different from layer argument. We
#> will ignore the layer argument.
#> The chosen file was already detected in the download directory. Skip downloading.
#> The corresponding gpkg file was already detected. Skip vectortranslate operations.
#> Reading layer `points' from data source `/mnt/57982e2a-2874-4246-a6fe-115c199bc6bd/data/osm/geofabrik_isle-of-wight-latest.gpkg' using driver `GPKG'
#> Simple feature collection with 11 features and 11 fields
#> Geometry type: POINT
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: -1.296974 ymin: 50.65497 xmax: -1.072088 ymax: 50.73917
#> Geodetic CRS:  WGS 84
mapview::mapview(electric_charging_points)

^{Created on 2021-03-24 by the reprex package (v1.0.0)}