General {geonames}R Documentation

General Queries

Description

Get topographic (height) information.

Usage

GNcountryCode(lat,lng,lang,radius)
GNcountryInfo(country,lang)
GNcities(north,east,south,west,lang,maxRows)
GNtimezone(lat,lng)

Arguments

lat Decimal latitude. North is positive
lng Decimal longitude. East is positive
radius Search radius in km
lang Language for internationalised returned text
country Two-character country code
north,east,south,west Decimal degree bounding box
maxRows Limit on returned rows

Details

These functions query geonames for information about various things.

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]