I have a minor fascination with fire trucks and firefighting. Friends can attest that I often take note of the number on a fire truck as it goes by, to know which station it’s from and what type of truck it is.
As I see more trucks, I find more station numbers that I didn’t know of previously. I wanted to have a map of Ottawa’s fire stations, so I could determine where the fire trucks are coming from. 🚒 🚒 🚒
This R script pulls the City of Ottawa’s facilities dataset, filters to just the fire stations,
and uses Leaflet to map them. Running analyze.R should do all you need, provided you have the dependencies
installed (tidyverse, geojsonio, and leaflet).
When you run the script, it should produce a plot like this:
For more information on Ottawa’s fire stations, check out the municipal website.
Woo!