Topography {geonames}R Documentation

Topographic queries

Description

Get topographic (height) information.

Usage

GNgtopo30(lat,lng)
GNsrtm3(lat,lng)

Arguments

lat Decimal latitude. North is positive
lng Decimal longitude. East is positive

Details

These functions query geonames for information about elevations. There are interfaces to SRTM3 and Gtopo30 data.

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.


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