Snap points to lines — snapPointsToLines2 • spNetwork

Snap points to their nearest lines (edited from maptools)

snapPointsToLines2(points, lines, idField = NA, ...)

Arguments

points: A feature collection of points
lines: A feature collection of linestrings
idField: The name of the column to use as index for the lines
...: unused

Value

A feature collection of points with the projected geometries

Examples

# reading the data
data(mtl_network)
data(bike_accidents)
mtl_network$LineID <- 1:nrow(mtl_network)
# snapping point to lines
snapped_points <- snapPointsToLines2(bike_accidents,
    mtl_network,
    "LineID"
)