Environment {geonames}R Documentation

Topographic queries

Description

Get topographic (height) information.

Usage

GNfindNearByWeather(lat,lng)
GNweather(north,east,south,west,maxRows)
GNweatherIcao(ICAO)
GNearthquakes(north,east,south,west,date,minMagnitude,maxRows)

Arguments

lat Decimal latitude. North is positive
lng Decimal longitude. East is positive
north, east, south, west Bounding box region in decimal degrees
maxRows Limit number of returned rows
ICAO ICAO weather station code
date earthquake query date
minMagnitude Minimum earhtquake magnitude

Details

These functions query geonames for information about weather and earthquakes.

Note capitalisation of 'NearBy'...

See http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html for a full description of valid arguments and return values.

Value

List or data frame objects with the query results.


[Package geonames version 0.8 Index]