This function adds a scalebar to frames created with frames_spatial.

add_scalebar(
frames,
distance = NULL,
height = 0.015,
position = "bottomleft",
x = NULL,
y = NULL,
colour = "black",
label_margin = 1.2,
units = "km",
verbose = TRUE
)

## Arguments

frames

an object of class moveVis created with frames_spatial.

distance

numeric, optional. Distance displayed by the scalebar (in either km or miles defined by argument units) By default, the displayed distance is calculated automatically.

height

numeric, height of the scalebar in a range from 0 to 1 as the proportion of the overall height of the frame map. Default is 0.015.

position

character, position of the scalebar on the map. Either "bottomleft", "upperleft", "upperright", "bottomright". Ignored, if x and y are set.

x

numeric, position of the bottom left corner of the scalebar on the x axis. If not set, position is used to calculate the position of the scalebar.

y

numeric, position of the bottom left corner of the scalebar on the y axis. If not set, position is used to calculate the position of the scalebar.

colour

character, colour of the distance labels. Default is "black".

label_margin

numeric, distance of the labels to the scalebar as a proportion of the height of the scalebar (e.g. if set to 2, the labels will be positioned with a distance to the scalebar of twice the scalebar height).

units

character, either "km" for kilometers or "miles" for miles.

verbose

logical, if TRUE, messages and progress information are displayed on the console (default).

## Value

A frames object of class moveVis.

## See also

frames_spatial frames_graph animate_frames

## Author

Jakob Schwalb-Willmann

## Examples

library(moveVis)
library(move)

data("move_data", "basemap_data")
m <- align_move(move_data, res = 4, unit = "mins")
#> Temporal resolution of 4 [mins] is used to align trajectories.

# create spatial frames using a custom NDVI base layer
r_list <- basemap_data[[1]]
r_times <- basemap_data[[2]]

if (FALSE) {
frames <- frames_spatial(m, r_list = r_list, r_times = r_times, r_type = "gradient",
fade_raster = TRUE)

# add a scale bar to frames:
frames.a <- add_scalebar(frames)
frames.a[[100]]

# or in white at another position
frames.b <- add_scalebar(frames, colour = "white", position = "bottomright")
frames.b[[100]]

# or with another height
frames.c <- add_scalebar(frames, colour = "white", position = "bottomright", height = 0.025)
frames.c[[100]]
}