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Expand Up @@ -120,20 +120,23 @@ the structure of Tile Maps. All of these intermediary functions,
as well as those facilitating the reverse conversion,
are available for use within the `quadkeyr` package.

There are different tools in Python, R and other programming languages
that help to convert Quadkeys to tiles, pixel or geographic coordinates as well.
There are different tools in Python,
R and other programming languages
that help to convert Quadkeys to
tiles, pixel or geographic coordinates as well.
The package `slippymath` [@slippymath] is the sole package
in the R ecosystem dedicated to analyzing tile maps.
Despite some similarities
between `quadkeyr` and `slippymath`,
the packages were developed with different objectives.

The goal of `quadkeyr` is
to provide a new tool to facilitate the analysis of Meta (Facebook) Mobility data,
to provide a new tool to facilitate
the analysis of Meta (Facebook) Mobility Data,
so it has specific functions tailored for this purpose
and is based solely on the Microsoft's Bing Tile Maps documentation.
and is based solely on Microsoft's Bing Tile Maps documentation.
On the other hand, `slippymath` is a mature and smaller package
with general tools for analyzing tile maps.
featuring general functions for processing tile maps.
It was designed to be easily incorporated as a
dependency of higher-level tools.

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to a `stars` object.
This object can then be saved as a raster image.

## Meta (Facebook) mobility data and Data for Good
## Meta (Facebook) Mobility Data and Data for Good

Meta (formerly Facebook) provides datasets
in their program Data for good
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especially Emily Riederer, Maria Paula Caldas,
Vincent van Hees, and Miles McBain,
for their valuable comments and support
during the review process.
during the review process,
and also Øystein Sørensen
for proofreading of this manuscript.

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