Retrieve Conservation Authority administrative areas

Retrieves Conservation Authority administrative area boundaries from the LIO Open Data REST service (LIO_Open03/11).

Usage

retrieve_conservation_authority(
  simplify = TRUE,
  refresh = FALSE,
  max_age = NULL
)

Arguments

simplify

Logical. If TRUE (the default), requests generalized geometry from the service. Conservation Authority boundaries are province-scale watersheds; simplification keeps the payload small without losing analytic utility for most crosswalk use-cases.

refresh

Logical. If TRUE, bypasses any cached copy and re-fetches from the live API. Defaults to FALSE.

max_age

Numeric or NULL. Maximum acceptable cache age in days; older entries are re-fetched. Defaults to NULL.

Value

An sf object of Conservation Authority boundary polygons, with source_url, source_name, and retrieved_at attributes attached for provenance.

Examples

if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
# Retrieves from the Ontario LIO REST service and caches the result.
ca_areas <- retrieve_conservation_authority()
} # }