fix the many many gaps in the polygons

[katiejolly]

There are thousands of slivers in these polygons. We can fix the slivers using some r code so that it's reproducible. I was googling around and found this issue on the sf page. It suggests:

shp <- st_buffer(shp, .0001) shp <- st_difference(shp, shp)

I think we should try this out on our shapefile.

[mikoontz]

Hi! I came here from the issue you linked (r-spatial/sf#547). I'm noticing more success using the st_snap() function (more info in the issue), so I'm passing that info along. Good luck!

This is an amazing project you all are working on; thanks for your research.

[katiejolly]

Awesome, thanks for the tip!