I have a grid I have converted from GeoTIFFs to a shapefile. I would like to convert and export the shapefile as a GeoPackage and change the projection so it uses the British National Grid as the geographic coordinate system when opened in a GIS. However this only seems to work using sp and not sf (which does not appear to retain aspects like the datum).
This is a problem as I would like to export GeoPackages containing multiple layers which you can only currently do in sf and not sp. Am I doing something wrong?
library(rgdal)
library(sf)
download.file("https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1URbux7Sw25KFTySqRFKXk53DV2UK4lsA&export=download" , destfile="Grid_Shapefile.zip")
unzip("Grid_Shapefile.zip")
Grid_sp <- readOGR(".", "Grid_Shapefile")
Grid_sf <- st_as_sf(Grid_sp)
BNG_Grid_sp <- spTransform(Grid_sp, CRS("+init=epsg:27700"))
BNG_Grid_sf_v1 <- st_transform(Grid_sf, crs=27700)
BNG_Grid_sf_v2 <- st_transform(Grid_sf, crs="+init=epsg:27700 +proj=tmerc +lat_0=49 +lon_0=-2 +k=0.9996012717 +x_0=400000 +y_0=-100000 +datum=OSGB36 +units=m +no_defs +ellps=airy +towgs84=446.448,-125.157,542.060,0.1502,0.2470,0.8421,-20.4894")
BNG_Grid_sf_v1_geom <- st_geometry(BNG_Grid_sf_v1)
BNG_Grid_sf_v2_geom <- st_geometry(BNG_Grid_sf_v2)
proj4string(BNG_Grid_sp)
attributes(BNG_Grid_sf_v1_geom)
attributes(BNG_Grid_sf_v2_geom)
writeOGR(BNG_Grid_sp, dsn = "BNG_Grid_sp.gpkg", layer = "Grid_sp", driver = "GPKG")
st_write(BNG_Grid_sf_v1, "BNG_Grid_sf_v1.gpkg", "Grid_sf_v1")
st_write(BNG_Grid_sf_v2, "BNG_Grid_sf_v2.gpkg", "Grid_sf_v2")
The solution to this (thanks to what Roger has posted here) is using the lwgeom package to do the transformation.The post by Roger on the sf GitHub gives further details.
library(rgdal)
library(sf)
download.file("https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1URbux7Sw25KFTySqRFKXk53DV2UK4lsA&export=download" , destfile="Grid_Shapefile.zip")
unzip("Grid_Shapefile.zip")
Grid_sp <- readOGR(".", "Grid_Shapefile")
Grid_sf <- st_as_sf(Grid_sp)
library(lwgeom)
BNG_Grid_sf_v4 <- st_transform_proj(Grid_sf, crs="+init=epsg:27700 +proj=tmerc +lat_0=49 +lon_0=-2 +k=0.9996012717 +x_0=400000 +y_0=-100000 +datum=OSGB36 +units=m +no_defs +ellps=airy +towgs84=446.448,-125.157,542.060,0.1502,0.2470,0.8421,-20.4894")
st_crs(BNG_Grid_sf_v4)
st_write(BNG_Grid_sf_v4, "BNG_Grid_sf_v4.gpkg", "Grid_sf_v4")