Create a tool to index geospatial data

[bevingtona]

Picture yourself filtering through a drive and trying to figure out what data is geospatial and where it lives on a map...

What about an R package, or a series of functions, where you list all spatial file formats (e.g. .tif, .sqlite, .shp, etc.), read them in, simplify the data, then export the summary to a database, or perhaps a Kmz.

This would be useful when you want to summarize the footprints of the data in a particular folder or set of folders.

For example, I have a drive of geotiffs, and would like to make an index of their footprints.

Also useful for drone imagesm and lidar data?