mapping Italy

The CRAN version can be loaded as follows:

library('mapping')

or the development version from GitHub:

remotes::install_github('serafinialessio/mapping')

The Italian geographical aggregates nomenclature are the following:

Function argument	Aggregates	Level
“none”	country	level 0
“ripartizione”	Italian divisions	level 1
“regione”	Italian regions	level 2
“provincia”	Italian municipalities	level 3
“comune”	Italian districts	level 4

where level 0 is the largest unit (country), and level 4 the smallest unit.

The diagram show the hierarchy used in the IT() to build the object to map. Smaller aggregate/levels have all the information of the bigger aggregates. For example, if we have “comune”, we have also all the information until the first level, “ripartizione”.

it_level0 <- loadCoordIT(unit = "none")
mappingIT(it_level0)

it_level1 <- loadCoordIT(unit = "ripartizione")
mappingIT(it_level1)

it_level2 <- loadCoordIT(unit = "regione")
mappingIT(it_level2)

it_level3 <- loadCoordIT(unit = "provincia")
mappingIT(it_level3)

it_level4 <- loadCoordIT(unit = "comune")
mappingIT(it_level4)

Note that, given the government rule, the “provincia” and district may change over the year.