Assignment: Spatial Data Processing

This exercise will lead you through some of the most basic and important steps for spatial data processing.

Things you need for this worksheet

• R — the interpreter can be installed on any operation system.
• RStudio — we recommend to use R Studio for (interactive) programming with R.

Spatial Data Processing

Create a map of Germany with the following features:

• a raster background map showing elevation data,
• a vector map showing the country boundary,
• use the vector map to clip the raster map,
• map point locations denoting your places of birth
  (use a SpatialPointsDataFrame object with the correct CRS for this task),
• map the three largest German cities and Marburg with different symbols, and
• get bonus points by adding a legend, rivers, and other cartographic elements as well as

Uploading assignment to Ilias

Create an HTML file from your Rmd file by knitting it. Then upload both files to Ilias. See here for where exactly to place your files as well as for the file naming conventions.