Geocode with Marineregions
Arguments
- place
(character) a place name
- like
(logical) adds a percent-sign before and after place value (a SQL LIKE function). Default:
TRUE
- fuzzy
(logical) Uses Levenshtein query to find nearest matches. Default:
FALSE
- ...
Curl options passed on to
httr::GET()
Value
If no results, an empty list. If results found, a data.frame with the columns:
MRGID (integer)
gazetteerSource (character)
placeType (character)
latitude (numeric)
longitude (numeric)
minLatitude (numeric)
minLongitude (numeric)
maxLatitude (numeric)
maxLongitude (numeric)
precision (numeric)
preferredGazetteerName (character)
preferredGazetteerNameLang (character)
status (character)
accepted (integer)
Examples
if (FALSE) {
# search for 'oostende', like=TRUE, and not fuzzy
mr_geo_code(place = "oostende", like = TRUE, fuzzy = FALSE)
# search for 'oostende', like=FALSE, and not fuzzy
mr_geo_code(place = "oostende", like = FALSE, fuzzy = FALSE)
# search for 'oostende', like=FALSE, and fuzzy
mr_geo_code(place = "oostende", like = FALSE, fuzzy = TRUE)
# search for 'oostende', like=TRUE, and fuzzy
mr_geo_code(place = "oostende", like = TRUE, fuzzy = TRUE)
# search for 'ast', like=TRUE, and fuzzy
mr_geo_code(place = "ast", like = TRUE, fuzzy = TRUE)
}