Locations of La Quinta Inn motels

Dataset describing the locations of 909 La Quinta Inn locations in the United States. Each observation corresponds to one motel, with motel information scraped from https://www.lq.com/en/findandbook/hotel-listings.html. The process used to obtain the geographic data is described in a blog post here http://njgeo.org/2014/01/30/mitch-hedberg-and-gis/.

laquinta

Format

A tibble with 909 rows and 6 variables:

address: Street address of the motel
city: City of the motel
state: US State of the motel
zip: US ZIP Code of the motel
longitude: The longitude of the motel in degrees.
latitude: The latitude of the motel in degrees.

Source

https://github.com/johnjreiser/HedbergGIS

Examples


library(ggplot2)
library(dplyr)



laquinta |>
  group_by(state) |>
  summarise(motels = n()) |>
  arrange(desc(factor(motels))) |>
  slice_head(n = 10) |>
  ggplot(aes(x = reorder(state, -motels), y = motels)) +
  geom_col()