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oe_search

Search for a place and return an sf data frame locating it

Description

This (at the moment internal) function provides a simple interface to the nominatim service for finding the geographical location of place names.

Usage

oe_search(
  place,
  base_url = "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org",
  destfile = tempfile(fileext = ".geojson"),
  ...
)

Arguments

`place`	Text string containing the name of a place the location of which is to be found, such as `"Leeds"` or `"Milan"`.
`base_url`	The URL of the nominatim server to use. The main open server hosted by OpenStreetMap is the default.
`destfile`	The name of the destination file where the output of the search query, a `.geojson` file, should be saved.
`...`	Extra arguments that are passed to `sf::st_read`.

Value

An sf object corresponding to the input place. The sf object is read by sf::st_read() and it is based on a geojson file returned by Nominatim API.

osmextract

Download and Read OpenStreetMap Data Extracts

v0.2.1

GPL-3

Authors

Andrea Gilardi [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9424-7439>), Robin Lovelace [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5679-6536>), Barry Rowlingson [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8586-6625>), Salva Fernández [rev] (Salva reviewed the package (v. 0.1) for rOpenSci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/395>), Nicholas Potter [rev] (Nicholas reviewed the package (v. 0.1) for rOpenSci, see <https://github.com/ropensci/software-review/issues/395>)

Initial release