Get the centroid of the maximum inscribed circle

Returns the centroid of the largest inscribed circle for each shape

st_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

An sf dataframe where geometry is the circle center of each shape in shp

Examples

data(towns)
st_circle_center(towns)
#> Simple feature collection with 7 features and 5 fields
#> Geometry type: POINT
#> Dimension:     XY
#> Bounding box:  xmin: -8248447 ymin: 5041227 xmax: -8233259 ymax: 5049609
#> Projected CRS: WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator
#>          NAME         VILLAGE        TOWN               MUNI ID
#> 1  Haverstraw      Haverstraw  Haverstraw Haverstraw Village  1
#> 2  Haverstraw          Pomona  Haverstraw Pomona, Haverstraw  2
#> 3  Haverstraw            <NA>  Haverstraw         Haverstraw  3
#> 4  Haverstraw West Haverstraw  Haverstraw    West Haverstraw  4
#> 5  Haverstraw            <NA>  Haverstraw         Haverstraw  5
#> 6 Stony Point            <NA> Stony Point        Stony Point  6
#> 7  Haverstraw            <NA>  Haverstraw         Haverstraw  7
#>                   geometry
#> 1 POINT (-8234582 5041227)
#> 2 POINT (-8242964 5041868)
#> 3 POINT (-8235722 5044015)
#> 4 POINT (-8236606 5043118)
#> 5 POINT (-8248447 5043738)
#> 6 POINT (-8240068 5049609)
#> 7 POINT (-8233259 5043748)