R - Maps and Spatial Data Workshop

Tutorial for working with maps and spatial data in R.

Content:
1. Get digital elevation model of a region, download as tiles and then paste together
2. Get shapefiles of political boarders & other features to add to the map
3. Add a compass rose
4. Simple Plot: convert DEM to fancy hillshade map & plot
5. Adding points to a map (sites, species ect)
6. Raster manipulations (raster calculator)
7. Polygon manipulation
8. Working with projections 
9. Add map insert (little overview map)

Tutorial R script - from Google drive
Tutorial R script - from Dropbox