View movement tracks

Note: This vignette has not yet been updated to the most recent moveVis version. Displayed code will likely not work as it relies on deprecated dependencies such as move (replaced by move2) or raster (replaced by terra). For details, see the help pages of moveVis and the README as those resources have already been updated.

With the simple view_spatial() wrapper, movement tracks can be displayed on an interactive map using the very handy mapview or leaflet packages. This may be helpful if you want to explore data before animating them or check the effect of applying correction methods as done by align_move().

# in case, mapview or leaflet is not installed:
install.packages(c("leaflet", "mapview"))

library(moveVis)
library(move)
data("move_data")
 
# return a mapview map
view_spatial(move_data)

An interactive map is returned. If you use RStudio, it will be displayed on the RStudio viewer pane:

When hovering a point with the cursor, the timestamps of that point is displayed. Thanks to mapview, you may click on a point to open a pop-up box containing the point’s attributes: