diff --git a/CRAN-SUBMISSION b/CRAN-SUBMISSION
index 6191eb25..4c2f0c30 100644
--- a/CRAN-SUBMISSION
+++ b/CRAN-SUBMISSION
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-Version: 0.7.2
-Date: 2023-09-06 13:43:18 UTC
-SHA: 8b97beff2a90cd54322e33edf5b957f1931f146f
+Version: 0.7.3
+Date: 2023-10-20 02:23:58 UTC
+SHA: 71b8994af389b81aba24d2b3e5afbb97386e36c5
diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index 811bfa94..a5c51274 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 Package: bioRad
 Title: Biological Analysis and Visualization of Weather Radar Data
-Version: 0.7.2.9000
+Version: 0.7.3
 Description: Extract, visualize and summarize aerial movements of birds and
     insects from weather radar data. See Dokter, A. M. et al. (2018) 
     "bioRad: biological analysis and visualization of weather radar data" <doi:10.1111/ecog.04028>
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 3ac8c152..0d728552 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ Then load the package with:
 
 ``` r
 library(bioRad)
-#> Welcome to bioRad version 0.7.2
+#> Welcome to bioRad version 0.7.3
 #> using vol2birdR version 1.0.1 (MistNet installed)
 ```
 
diff --git a/codemeta.json b/codemeta.json
index 1bb7d8f7..0da62e34 100644
--- a/codemeta.json
+++ b/codemeta.json
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
   "codeRepository": "https://github.com/adokter/bioRad/",
   "issueTracker": "https://github.com/adokter/bioRad/issues",
   "license": "https://spdx.org/licenses/MIT",
-  "version": "0.7.2",
+  "version": "0.7.3",
   "programmingLanguage": {
     "@type": "ComputerLanguage",
     "name": "R",
@@ -145,16 +145,15 @@
     },
     {
       "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
-      "identifier": "ggmap",
-      "name": "ggmap",
-      "version": ">= 3.0.0",
+      "identifier": "ggspatial",
+      "name": "ggspatial",
       "provider": {
         "@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
         "@type": "Organization",
         "name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
         "url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
       },
-      "sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ggmap"
+      "sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=ggspatial"
     },
     {
       "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
@@ -168,6 +167,18 @@
       },
       "sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=knitr"
     },
+    {
+      "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
+      "identifier": "prettymapr",
+      "name": "prettymapr",
+      "provider": {
+        "@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
+        "@type": "Organization",
+        "name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
+        "url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
+      },
+      "sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=prettymapr"
+    },
     {
       "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
       "identifier": "rmarkdown",
@@ -180,6 +191,18 @@
       },
       "sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rmarkdown"
     },
+    {
+      "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
+      "identifier": "rosm",
+      "name": "rosm",
+      "provider": {
+        "@id": "https://cran.r-project.org",
+        "@type": "Organization",
+        "name": "Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)",
+        "url": "https://cran.r-project.org"
+      },
+      "sameAs": "https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=rosm"
+    },
     {
       "@type": "SoftwareApplication",
       "identifier": "sf",
@@ -500,7 +523,7 @@
     },
     "SystemRequirements": null
   },
-  "fileSize": "4886.285KB",
+  "fileSize": "4879.903KB",
   "citation": [
     {
       "@type": "ScholarlyArticle",
diff --git a/cran-comments.md b/cran-comments.md
index 870b8be1..f488aa37 100644
--- a/cran-comments.md
+++ b/cran-comments.md
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
 ## bioRad 0.7.3 
 
-Updates to external links and tests. Errors addressed from CRAN package check.
-
-1. Replaced radar reference with https://aloftdata.eu/radars/ JSON link. 
-
-2. Fixes an issue where flight altitude quantiles were incorrectly shifted down by up to one height bin in integrate_profile(). 
-
-3. Tests brought to date with the latest version of the `testthat` package, which requires handling each indvidual warning and deprecates expect_equivalent()
+Adressing CRAN errors related to stamen maps brownouts, and resulting issues in dependency ggmap.
 
+Fixes:
+1. Migrated from ggmap to ggspatial
+2. Adressed all CRAN build issues
+3. some small bugfixes
diff --git a/man/map.Rd b/man/map.Rd
index 0e5a51a4..a845e6d8 100644
--- a/man/map.Rd
+++ b/man/map.Rd
@@ -60,8 +60,7 @@ color scale, e.g. output from \code{\link[viridisLite:viridis]{viridisLite::viri
 A ggplot object
 }
 \description{
-Plots a plan position indicator (\code{ppi}) on a base layer using
-\code{\link[ggmap:ggmap]{ggmap::ggmap()}}.
+Plots a plan position indicator (\code{ppi}) on a base layer
 }
 \details{
 Available scan parameters for mapping can by printed to screen by