Locations of Public Waste Skips in Blantyre, Malawi • wasteskipsblantyre

The goal of wasteskipsblantyre is to provide a dataset for research and planning of solid waste management in Blantyre, Malawi. The dataset includes locations of the publicly accessible waste skips in in the city. The data was collected in 2021 and has not been updated since.

Installation

You can install the development version of wasteskipsblantyre from GitHub with:

# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("openwashdata/wasteskipsblantyre")

Alternatively, you can download the individual datasets as a CSV or XLSX file from the table below.

dataset	CSV	XLSX
wasteskipsblantyre	Download CSV	Download XLSX

Project goal

Data on the location of public waste skips in Blanytre was not available. Without such data, it becomes difficult to develop a solid waste management plan and logistics. The goal of this project was to identify the locations of public waste skips in Blantyre, Malawi.

Data

The data set includes the locations of the publicly accessible waste skips in Blantyre, Malawi. The data was collected in 2021.

library(wasteskipsblantyre)

The wasteskipsblantyre data set has 4 variables and 53 observations. For an overview of the variable names, see the following table.

wasteskipsblantyre

variable_name	variable_type	description
name	character	Name of the waste skip location.
long	double	Longitude of the location as decimal degrees.
lat	double	Latitude of the location as decimal degrees.
capacity_l	double	Capacity of the container in liters.

Locations of waste skips in this dataset

Example

The code below is an example which shows how you could use the data to prepare a map in R. Find this and more examples in the prepared examples article (vignette("examples")).

library(wasteskipsblantyre)
library(sf)
library(tmap)

# read data set into a simple feature (spatial vector data)
sf_wsb <- st_as_sf(wasteskipsblantyre, coords = c('long', 'lat'), crs = 4326)
# set mapping mode to interactive ("view")
tmap_mode("view")
# create an interactive map 
qtm(sf_wsb)

Screenshot of the an interactive map with OpenStreetMap layer.

License

Data are available as CC-BY.

Citation

Please cite using:

citation("wasteskipsblantyre")
#> To cite package 'wasteskipsblantyre' in publications use:
#> 
#>   Yesaya M, Msuku L, Tilley E, Loos S (2023). "wasteskipsblantyre:
#>   Locations of Public Waste Skips in Blantyre, Malawi."
#>   doi:10.5281/zenodo.6470427 <https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6470427>,
#>   <https://openwashdata.github.io/wasteskipsblantyre/>.
#> 
#> A BibTeX entry for LaTeX users is
#> 
#>   @Misc{yesayamsuku:2023,
#>     title = {wasteskipsblantyre: Locations of Public Waste Skips in Blantyre, Malawi},
#>     author = {Mabvuto Yesaya and Limbani Msuku and Elizabeth Tilley and Sebastian Camilo Loos},
#>     year = {2023},
#>     url = {https://openwashdata.github.io/wasteskipsblantyre/},
#>     doi = {10.5281/zenodo.6470427},
#>     abstract = {An R data package containing the locations of public waste skips in Blantyre, Malawi.},
#>     version = {0.0.2},
#>   }