getGeoCode function

geocoding utility

Geocode your data using, R, JSON and OSM or Google Maps' Geocoding APIs

getGeoCode(gcStr, API = c("osm", "google")[1], JSON = FALSE, 
    verbose = 0)

Arguments

• gcStr: adddress to geocode
• API: which API to use. see https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/api/Search/ and http://allthingsr.blogspot.de/2012/01/geocode-your-data-using-r-json-and.html
• JSON: use the JSON protocol. If FALSE, we do not have to load additional libraries
• verbose: level of verbosity

Returns

returns lat/lon for address

Author(s)

Markus Loecher

Examples

if (0){
  getGeoCode("1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA")
  getGeoCode("Brooklyn")
  #You can run this on the entire column of a data frame or a data table:
  DF = cbind.data.frame(address=c("Berlin,Germany", "Princeton,NJ", 
            "cadillac+mountain+acadia+national+park"), lat = NA, lon = NA)
  DF <- with(DF, data.frame(address, t(sapply(DF$address, getGeoCode))))
}