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geo_code

Convert text strings into points on the map


Description

Generate a lat/long pair from data using Google's geolocation API.

Usage

geo_code(
  address,
  service = "nominatim",
  base_url = "https://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json",
  return_all = FALSE,
  pat = NULL
)

Arguments

address

Text string representing the address you want to geocode

service

Which service to use? Nominatim by default

base_url

The base url to query

return_all

Should the request return all information returned by Google Maps? The default is FALSE: to return only two numbers: the longitude and latitude, in that order

pat

The API key used. By default this is set to NULL and this is usually aquired automatically through a helper, api_pat().

See Also

Other nodes: nearest_google()

Examples

## Not run: 
geo_code(address = "Hereford")
geo_code("LS7 3HB")
geo_code("hereford", return_all = TRUE)
# needs api key in .Renviron
geo_code("hereford", service = "google", pat = Sys.getenv("GOOGLE"), return_all = TRUE)

## End(Not run)

stplanr

Sustainable Transport Planning

v0.8.2
MIT + file LICENSE
Authors
Robin Lovelace [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5679-6536>), Richard Ellison [aut], Malcolm Morgan [aut] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9488-9183>), Barry Rowlingson [ctb], Nick Bearman [ctb], Nikolai Berkoff [ctb], Scott Chamberlain [rev] (Scott reviewed the package for rOpenSci, see https://github.com/ropensci/onboarding/issues/10), Mark Padgham [ctb], Andrea Gilardi [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9424-7439>)
Initial release

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