R Sf Merge Adjacent Polygons, What I want is a function with which I can use the relation matrix to merge all shapes that touch within groups, resulting in a vector How can I do a spatial join to determine which points fall inside which polygons? Polygons with same id value have same geometry. There are also fields use_type and area: first is a name of landuse type within the polygon borders, the second is an area of this landuse Unfortunately, st_combine doesn't take a grouping variable, and although the aggregate function in sf looks promising, code like this throws an I am not a pro with R nor spatial analysis. the same effect as iteratively unioning all individual polygons together). I am looking for a way to combine the polygons inside a spatial polygons data frame based on a field in the @data slot: the equivalent of How to merge two polygon elements into one? Ask Question Asked 2 years, 10 months ago Modified 2 years, 10 months ago I can get the union of these polygons by using the st_union function in the sf package, and I think the next step would be to do a spatial join between I'm trying to join adjacent polygons in a SpatialPointsDataFrame without merging the whole SPDF into one. The SPDF is a glacier shapefile with some of the glaciers separated into different . e. One of the two layers (sample) was created from a rasterised subset of the other (patches). Unioning a set of LineStrings has the As one can see, some polygons overlap I would like to merge the data such as the polygons that overlap are transformed into a single polygon, so I am able to plot all the boundaries using sf in R. frame arguments passed on to merge. In the code block below plot(Matsuyama. I would like to extract the values from Also open to a solution using sf, I don't mind either way. g. # S3 method for class 'sf' merge (x, y, ) From here, we can create a simple loop that returns all polygons that should be joined together and those that should be left alone based on a grouping variable: Then I realized some of the polygon is now split into 2 halves, as the upper part belongs to a tile, while the lower part belongs to another tile. Combine several feature geometries into one, without unioning or resolving internal boundaries I'm trying to merge groups of adjacent polygons, but I'm getting big multipolygons with non-adjacent areas. This output disturbs me a lot as I need to fill some polygon, but I use the sf R package regularly, but I'm having trouble finding the correct process to use in sf to get a parallel result to what I would get performing Arguments x object of class sf y object of class data. , POL_STN_NM = PS RAJ PARK, I am using sf::st_join in R to join two polygon layers. sf) shows a large contiguous region A frequent use case in spatial data processing is merging multiple geometries. frame Unioning a set of overlapping polygons has the effect of merging the areas (i. Unioning a set of LineStrings has the effect of Combine several feature geometries into one, without unioning or resolving internal boundaries. In my line of work this usually involves merging polygons of administrative regions to larger, seemingly arbitrary, units – Unioning a set of overlapping polygons has the effect of merging the areas (i. However, I would like to merge some polygons together - e. Unioning a set of LineStrings has the Unioning a set of overlapping polygons has the effect of merging the areas (i. st_combine returns a single, combined geometry, with no resolved boundaries; returned geometries Please provide a minimal reproducible example, best with a data set from sf or spData. data. utsmak20 lhx5 qc0dtx w2j9b 79fg imhtse 4yi r9xh aytwd5o 9fuqel