search geonames
Details
general search call
API doc for GNsearch is at http://www.geonames.org/export/geonames-search.html
Examples
if (FALSE) {
# Find places called Lancaster and 'geocode' the result
(lanc_df <- GNsearch(name = "Lancaster", country = "UK"))
lanc_coords <- lanc_df[1, c("lng", "lat")]
}