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R package for accessing Finnish geospatial data

Is rOpenGov/geofi beginner-friendly?

We have not seen enough recent pull requests from outside contributors to rOpenGov/geofi to say how often they are merged. No beginner-friendly issue is open right now; the list below has the other issues we hold for it.

Stars
25
Forks
9
Open beginner issues
0
Indexed issues
15
Dominant language
R
License
No license data
Last GitHub push
Apr 2, 2026
Latest indexed
Sep 21, 2026
Contributing guide
No contributing guide
Code of conduct
No code of conduct
Beginner labels
help wanted
PR merge metrics
No merged PRs in 30d

How to contribute to rOpenGov/geofi

  1. There is no contributing guide, so start from the README and a few recently merged pull requests to see how changes are proposed.
  2. Follow the repository to hear when a new beginner-friendly issue opens, or look through the other issues below.

Issues somebody may already be working on are listed last. List everything by date

  • Add postinumerotiedostot by Posti
    Open
    enhancement

    Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rOpenGov/geofi#29 ·

  • Mappings of municipalities to other region types for history data
    Open

    Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

    rOpenGov/geofi#28 · 5 comments ·

  • Add a separate vignette on how to use `ows4r`package with all Finnish WFS-apis
    May be free again @muuankarski claimed this 2450 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    rOpenGov/geofi#26 · 1 assignee ·

  • Data catalog
    May be free again @antagomir claimed this 2450 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    documentation

    rOpenGov/geofi#25 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Check that the test coverage is sufficient
    Open
    documentation enhancement

    rOpenGov/geofi#23 · 1 assignee ·

  • Improve wfs_api() error reporting
    May be free again @jlehtoma claimed this 2599 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    rOpenGov/geofi#19 · 4 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Add Finnish Digital Elevation Model (DEM)
    May be free again @jlehtoma claimed this 2604 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    rOpenGov/geofi#18 · 5 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Wrong municipality name for Pedersöre
    Open
    documentation enhancement help wanted question

    rOpenGov/geofi#17 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Consider VRK:n rakennusten osoitetiedot ja äänestysalueet -data
    Open
    documentation enhancement

    rOpenGov/geofi#13 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • multivariate dotplots with sf + ggplot
    May be free again @antagomir claimed this 2450 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    enhancement

    rOpenGov/geofi#9 · 1 assignee ·

  • Write publication
    May be free again @antagomir claimed this 3890 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open

    rOpenGov/geofi#5 · 2 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Add sairaanhoitpiirit
    May be free again @antagomir claimed this 3890 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    documentation enhancement

    rOpenGov/geofi#6 · 3 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Add vaalipiirit
    May be free again @antagomir claimed this 3890 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    documentation enhancement

    rOpenGov/geofi#7 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

  • Add election districts
    Open
    documentation enhancement help wanted

    rOpenGov/geofi#12 · 11 comments · 1 assignee ·

  • Write coordinate transformation examples
    May be free again @jlehtoma claimed this 2450 days ago, and no pull request is open. Open
    documentation

    rOpenGov/geofi#10 · 1 comment · 1 assignee ·

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