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CatastRoNav vs quantities

A side-by-side editorial comparison of CatastRoNav and quantities — release velocity, themes, recent moves, and the top alternatives to consider.

CatastRoNav vs quantities: at a glance

FeatureCatastRoNavquantities
SectorAnalyticsAnalytics
Velocity score0.00.0
Sparks · 30d00
Top themesspatial-data, open-government-data, spain, wmsunits, measurement-uncertainty, error-propagation, r-package
Last editorial update8h ago1h ago
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What is CatastRoNav?

Navarre's cadastre client finally reaches feature parity with its bigger Spanish sibling.

CatastRoNav wraps the Cadastre of Navarre, a Spanish region that publishes its own cadastral services separately from the national system. Until 1.0.0 the package could only fetch cadastral parcels via ATOM; it now retrieves buildings and addresses through ATOM as well and adds WMS INSPIRE layer access through catrnav_wms_get_layer(). The same release relicenses to GPL-2, moves requests to httr2 with retries and switches messaging to cli.

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What is quantities?

The glue package that makes R carry units and uncertainty through the same calculation.

quantities combines the units and errors packages into one class so values keep both their measurement units and their uncertainty through arithmetic, subsetting and data frame operations. Recent releases have been narrow: fixes to the covariance and correlation implementations, and performance work on the data.frame methods. Most of the release traffic is coordination with its two parent packages.

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CatastRoNav vs quantities: editorial side-by-side

C
CatastRoNav
ANALYTICS
0.0

Navarre's cadastre client finally reaches feature parity with its bigger Spanish sibling.

◆ Current state

CatastRoNav wraps the Cadastre of Navarre, a Spanish region that publishes its own cadastral services separately from the national system. Until 1.0.0 the package could only fetch cadastral parcels via ATOM; it now retrieves buildings and addresses through ATOM as well and adds WMS INSPIRE layer access through catrnav_wms_get_layer(). The same release relicenses to GPL-2, moves requests to httr2 with retries and switches messaging to cli.

◆ Where it's heading

The package is being pulled into line with CatastRo, the maintainer's national-cadastre client: same transport, same UTF-8 normalization strategy, same option names falling back to the CatastRo equivalents. Coverage has been gated by what the Navarre Cadastre actually publishes — 0.1.0 said outright that further ATOM capabilities would arrive when the regional service made them available, and 1.0.0 is that promise landing.

◆ Prediction

Expect the next releases to track new Navarre service endpoints as they are published, and to inherit whatever maintenance pattern CatastRo adopts next.

Q
quantities
ANALYTICS
0.0

The glue package that makes R carry units and uncertainty through the same calculation.

◆ Current state

quantities combines the units and errors packages into one class so values keep both their measurement units and their uncertainty through arithmetic, subsetting and data frame operations. Recent releases have been narrow: fixes to the covariance and correlation implementations, and performance work on the data.frame methods. Most of the release traffic is coordination with its two parent packages.

◆ Where it's heading

The design settled with 0.2.0, which made uncertainty unit-aware and added correlation and covariance support for quantities objects. Since then the package behaves like the integration layer it is — releasing when units, errors, dplyr or ggplot2 shift underneath it rather than on its own schedule. Several releases consist only of test repairs against upstream changes.

◆ Prediction

Expect the next release to follow a units or errors change rather than introduce new behaviour of its own.

Alternatives to CatastRoNav and quantities

Other Analytics products tracked by Sparkpulse, ranked by recent ship velocity. Each card links to a full editorial trajectory and lets you pivot into a head-to-head comparison with either CatastRoNav or quantities.

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Recent activity from CatastRoNav and quantities

Latest ship moves from both products, interleaved chronologically. ⚡ = editorial spark.

  1. 1mo agoCatastRoNavBuildings, addresses and WMS layers arrive in 1.0.0
  2. 1y agoquantitiesFixes covariance and correlation implementations
  3. 2y agoquantitiesFaster data.frame methods
  4. 2y agoCatastRoNavATOM parcel retrieval and a caching system
  5. 3y agoquantitiesTest fixes for an upstream units change
  6. 3y agoCatastRoNavGeometry validity fix for returned sf objects
  7. 3y agoCatastRoNavFirst release opens the Navarre cadastre to R
  8. 3y agoquantitiesUncertainty becomes unit-aware; adds correlation support
  9. 5y agoquantitiesCompatibility fix for units 0.7-0
  10. 6y agoquantitiesFixes uncertainty propagation for offset unit conversions

Frequently asked questions

What is the difference between CatastRoNav and quantities?

They serve adjacent needs but don't currently overlap on shipped themes. CatastRoNav and quantities are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). See the at-a-glance table above for a side-by-side breakdown of velocity, recent sparks, and editorial themes.

Is CatastRoNav better than quantities?

Sparkpulse doesn't pick a winner — we score release velocity, not feature parity. CatastRoNav and quantities are shipping at a similar cadence (velocity 0.0 vs 0.0, both within Sparkpulse's "active" band). For your specific use case, the alternatives sections above list other Analytics products to evaluate alongside.

What are the best alternatives to CatastRoNav?

Top CatastRoNav alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "CatastRoNav alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/catastronav for the full list with editorial commentary on each.

What are the best alternatives to quantities?

Top quantities alternatives in Analytics are ranked by recent ship velocity. Browse the "quantities alternatives" section above for the current picks, or visit /alternatives/quantities for the full list with editorial commentary on each.