Get the centroid of the maximum inscribed circle

Source: R/center.R

Returns the centroid of the largest inscribed circle for each shape

geos_circle_center(shp, tolerance = 0.01, epsg = 3857)

Arguments

shp

An sf dataframe.

tolerance

positive numeric tolerance to simplify by. Default is 0.01.

epsg

numeric EPSG code to planarize to. Default is 3857.

Value

geos geometry vector of points.

Examples

data(towns)
geos_circle_center(towns)
#> <geos_geometry[7] with CRS=WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator>
#> [1] <POINT (-8234581.81061 5041227.20796)>
#> [2] <POINT (-8242964.41612 5041867.6098)> 
#> [3] <POINT (-8235721.66668 5044014.65337)>
#> [4] <POINT (-8236606.26276 5043118.13727)>
#> [5] <POINT (-8248446.64048 5043738.24472)>
#> [6] <POINT (-8240067.5504 5049608.51069)> 
#> [7] <POINT (-8233258.86813 5043748.1357)>