> dresden_locations head(dresden_locations) Here’s what some of my data looks like: > install.packages('tidyverse') To download the data, go to my github repo. I cleaned up my data into a tibble and added some information about the book in which the location first appears and if there is a character or group particularly associated with the location. Now that we can get locations, we can get to plotting on maps! Register_google(key = 'paste_your_API_key_here')

I clicked “Create Credentials” > “API Key.” In doing so I was able to generate an API key, which is a string of alphanumeric gobbledegook.īack in R, here’s how you use your API key and then finally get to search for latitude and longitude. Linking a credit card was less than ideal, so if you have other mapping tools that you prefer please let me know about them! Once I signed up for the Google Maps Platform account, I navigated to APIs & Services and then Credentials. I “Enabled Google Maps Platform” by following the on screen wizard (selected Maps, generated a project name, and gave billing info). I went to this registration page to sign up for an API key. Importantly, since Eric’s tutorial was written an update to Google’s Maps Platform now meads that ggmap::geocode requires that you have an API key from Google. I learned to create maps using a helpful tutorial and to make animations using the vignette for the package magick. Obtaining latitude and longitude with ggmap Once I had the names of locations (ex: “Shedd Aquarium, Chicago”) I used the package ggmap to obtain latitude and longitude information. I excluded most of the invented locations for which there is little to no description of the approximate location such as Harry’s office and McAnally’s Pub, but I included locations with fuller descriptions such as the Carpenter’s home near Wrigely Field and Thomas Raith’s apartment in the Gold Coast area. I’ve grabbed many of the locations from this map, those curated on two pages on The Dresden Files Wiki all locations and just Chicago, then finally added a few of my own for a total of 60 locations. I wanted to expand on it by including more locations and adding metadata onto the locations. I had a ton of fun clicking around this interactive map of The Dresden Files locations. This tutorial will walk through how to makes maps in R using locations from The Dresden Files. The Dresden Files are an amazing, silly fantasy series about magic in modern day Chicago.

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