Generate a lat/long pair from data using Google's geolocation API.
Usage
geo_code(
address,
service = "nominatim",
base_url = "https://maps.google.com/maps/api/geocode/json",
return_all = FALSE,
pat = NULL
)Arguments
- address
Text string representing the address you want to geocode
- service
Which service to use? Nominatim by default
- base_url
The base url to query
- return_all
Should the request return all information returned by Google Maps? The default is
FALSE: to return only two numbers: the longitude and latitude, in that order- pat
Personal access token
Examples
if (FALSE) { # \dontrun{
geo_code(address = "Hereford")
geo_code("LS7 3HB")
geo_code("hereford", return_all = TRUE)
# needs api key in .Renviron
geo_code("hereford", service = "google", pat = Sys.getenv("GOOGLE"), return_all = TRUE)
} # }