在ggmap中将图像用作点图标

Question

我正在尝试创建一个包含多个学校的简单ggmap。我可以很容易地将学校显示为地图上的点(代码如下)。但是，我想引入一个学校图标的图像来代替分数。

据我所知，annotation_custom不会工作，因为它需要笛卡尔坐标。插入应该是有效的，但这将为一所学校带来图像，而不是所有学校。同样，尝试将点字符更改为图像，而不仅仅是添加图像。

我怀疑答案在于grImport、subplot，或许还有一个与geom_point对话的函数。但是，我现在很困惑。

这是可以很好地用作图标的图像类型：wikimedia graduation hat

这个问题的答案images for tick marks in ggplot2在添加图像方面做得很好，但是，我想使用图像作为点字符，并能够基于属性更改颜色、大小等。

# Load needed packages
# install.packages(c("rgdal", "rgeos", "maptools", "ggmap", "sp", "plyr", "XML",    "grImport"))
library(rgdal) 
library(rgeos)
library(maptools) 
library(ggmap) 
library(sp)
library(plyr)
library(XML) 
library(grImport)

# Define a value for the Seattle Public Schools (SPS) url:
SPSurl <- "http://www.seattleschools.org/modules/cms/pages.phtml? pageid=197023&sessionid=95b8499fc128fde5d7e1335751c73fee&t"

# All of the addresses for SPS, multiple tables: 
SPSaddresses <- readHTMLTable(SPSurl)

# Just elementary schools
SPSelementary <- readHTMLTable(SPSurl, which=3, header=T)

# Just keep the names of the schools and addresses
SPSelementary <- SPSelementary[,c(1,3)]

# Change the address column name
colnames(SPSelementary)[2] <- "address"

# Convert all to character
SPSelementary <- 
  data.frame(lapply(SPSelementary, 
                    as.character), 
             stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

# get rid of the phone numbers in the address
SPSelementary$address <- substr(SPSelementary$address, 
                                 1,
                                 nchar(SPSelementary$address)-14)

# get rid of extra space at end of line
SPSelementary$address <- sub("[[:blank:]]+$", 
                              "", 
                              SPSelementary$address)              

# get the longitude and latitude of the school addresses
SPSelementary_lonlat <- geocode(SPSelementary$address)

# combine addresses with longitude and latitude data
SPSelementary$id <- rownames(SPSelementary)
SPSelementary_lonlat$id <- rownames(SPSelementary_lonlat)

SPSelementary_ll <- merge(SPSelementary, 
                          SPSelementary_lonlat,
                          by="id")


# Get a map of the area around the McDonald school
McDonald_map <- get_map("144 NE 54th Street Seattle WA 98105",
                        zoom=15,
                        maptype='roadmap')

McDonald_map_plot <-
  ggmap(McDonald_map)

McDonald_map_plot

# Add the schools
McDonald_map_plot <- McDonald_map_plot +
  geom_point(data=SPSelementary_ll, 
             mapping=aes(x=lon, 
                         y=lat),
             shape = 17, ### This be a triangle, want to change to school. 
             size = 4,
             alpha=.75) 

McDonald_map_plot

Answer 1

根据hrbrmstr上面的回答，这里有一段完整的代码，它生成一个与示例SVG非常相似的符号。它使用Symbola字体，其中包含许多面向地图的符号。从这里安装：http://zhm.github.io/symbola/

重要的是，除非您下载extrafonts包的devtools版本，否则您将希望安装字体的TTF版本，而不是OTF版本。这个页面的未来探索者可能想要仔细检查OTF是否在extrafonts中不受支持，因为我相信OTF是未来的。

以下是hrbrmstr描述的完整工作版本：

# Load needed packages
# install.packages(c("rgdal", "rgeos", "maptools", "ggmap", "sp", "plyr", "XML", "rgdal", "grImport"))
library(rgdal) 
library(rgeos)
library(maptools) 
library(ggmap) 
library(sp)
library(plyr)
library(XML) 
library(extrafont)

font_import(pattern="Symbola", prompt=FALSE)

# Define a value for the Seattle Public Schools (SPS) url:
SPSurl <- "http://www.seattleschools.org/modules/cms/pages.phtml?pageid=197023&sessionid=95b8499fc128fde5d7e1335751c73fee&t"

# All of the addresses for SPS, multiple tables: 
SPSaddresses <- readHTMLTable(SPSurl, header=T)

# Just elementary schools
SPSelementary <- readHTMLTable(SPSurl, which=3)

# Just keep the names of the schools and addresses
SPSelementary <- SPSelementary[,c(1,3)]

# Change the address column name
colnames(SPSelementary)[2] <- "address"

# Convert all to character
SPSelementary <- 
  data.frame(lapply(SPSelementary, 
                    as.character), 
             stringsAsFactors=FALSE)

# get rid of the phone numbers in the address
SPSelementary$address <- substr(SPSelementary$address, 
                                1,
                                nchar(SPSelementary$address)-14)

# get rid of extra space at end of line
SPSelementary$address <- sub("[[:blank:]]+$", 
                             "", 
                             SPSelementary$address)              

# get the longitude and latitude of the school addresses
SPSelementary_lonlat <- geocode(SPSelementary$address)

# combine addresses with longitude and latitude data
SPSelementary$id <- rownames(SPSelementary)
SPSelementary_lonlat$id <- rownames(SPSelementary_lonlat)

SPSelementary_ll <- merge(SPSelementary, 
                          SPSelementary_lonlat,
                          by="id")

SPSelementary_ll$marker <- "⅔" 

# Get a map of the area around the McDonald school
McDonald_map <- get_map("144 NE 54th Street Seattle WA 98105",
                        zoom=15,
                        maptype='roadmap')

McDonald_map_plot <-
  ggmap(McDonald_map)

McDonald_map_plot <- McDonald_map_plot +
  geom_text(data=SPSelementary_ll, 
            mapping=aes(x=lon, 
                        y=lat, label=marker, family="Symbola"),
            size = 16) 

McDonald_map_plot

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我可能应该加上免责声明，这可能是这类问题的一种老生常谈的通用解决方案。理论上，您可以将svg符号添加到自定义字体中，如symbola文档中所述：https://github.com/zhm/symbola/blob/master/README.md

Answer 2

如果你按照这里的说明- https://github.com/wch/extrafont -来导入字体，你可以试着找到一个好的符号字体，有一个学校(并且编码正确)。然后你可以这样做：

# add a market object that is the proper
# symbol location in the font family

SPSelementary_ll$marker <- "A" 

# Use geom_text() vs geom_point() 
# you may (will?) need to do some tweaks to the position of the symbol

McDonald_map_plot <- McDonald_map_plot +
  geom_text(data=SPSelementary_ll, 
             mapping=aes(x=lon, 
                         y=lat, label=marker, family="Wingdings-Regular", fontface="plain"),
             size = 10,
             alpha=.75) 

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这不是很理想，但它相当灵活。我几乎可以肯定，有一种"grob“方法可以做你想做的事情，但这可能会有所帮助，直到某个真正优秀的ggplot开发者有机会添加这个解决方案。