ggplot of Dymaxion/Airocean (icosahedral) map projection

2016-07-12

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Question

I think R. Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion map is one of the most beautiful map projections ever devised:

I was playing with the neat projections in mapproj, which works great with ggplot, but it doesn't look like there are any projections for this. Is there a nice ggplot way to do this?

Answer

I'm afraid it won't plot the projections, but my package dggridR wraps DGGRID to project points on to the Fuller projections. You may find this useful if you were interested in spatial analysis more than just plotting. Though the package does provide facilities for plotting the resultant hexagons/triangles of the Fuller projection back onto a more standard projection.