Keep this or…

[hrbrmstr]

abandon it and support https://github.com/pdil/usmap @hadley @rdinter ?

FWIW I have a new pkg ready that only uses sf (halfway done porting the ++gd independent elide-ing code to sf @rdinter added, too) so we cld keep both.

[hadley]

Combining the two efforts seems reasonable to me

[hadley]

Would be good to ensure similar interface to https://github.com/ropensci/USAboundaries too

[hadley]

Or maybe integrate all three somehow?

[rdinter]

It looks like the the usmap package has the same shapefiles as albersusa since it references Moving The Earth (well, Alaska & Hawaii) With R and performs the same elide functions for Alaska and Hawaii in its source code. It looks like it could benefit from a lot of the albersusa functionality, for example there does not appear to be any way to change the map's projection since the R objects used for plotting have been fortified to data.frames with the albers equal area projection as the SpatialPolygon's current projection. I think it'd be great to integrate all 3 packages referenced in some way.

Since I'm new to package development, I don't know if it's easier to jump aboard the usmap train or implement some of the usmap functions to albersusa. But I'm willing to help out.

[bhaskarvk]

https://github.com/rveciana/d3-composite-projections seems to have some really nice composite projections. If you do end up reworking/merging the R pkgs, please consider supporting the above mentioned projections too.

[dblodgett-usgs]

@hrbrmstr - what package are you referring to that is sf-only and has an elide capability?