Searching {geonames}R Documentation

Searching

Description

Various geographic searches

Usage

GNsearch(...)
GNneighbourhood(lat,lng)
GNfindNearby(...)
GNfindNearbyPlaceName(lat,lng,radius,maxRows,style)
GNfindNearbyStreets(lat,lng)
GNfindNearestAddress(lat,lng)
GNfindNearestIntersection(lat,lng)

Arguments

... Various search arguments
lat Decimal latitude. North is positive
lng Decimal longitude. East is positive
radius Search radius in km
maxRows Limit on returned rows
style Verbosity of returned data

Details

These functions query geonames for general spatial searches.

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]