mosaic (version 0.9-0)

googleMap: Display a point on earth on a Google Map

Description

Creates a URL for Google Maps for a particular latitude and longitude position.

Usage

googleMap(latitude, longitude, position = NULL, zoom = 12,
  maptype = c("roadmap", "satellite", "terrain", "hybrid"), mark = FALSE,
  radius = 0, browse = TRUE, ...)

Arguments

latitude,longitude

vectors of latitude and longitude values

position

a data frame containing latitude and longitude positions

zoom

zoom level for initial map (1-20)

maptype

one of 'roadmap', 'satellite', 'terrain', and 'hybrid'

mark

a logical indicating whether the location should be marked with a pin

radius

a vector of radii of circles centered at position that are displayed on the map

browse

a logical indicating whether the URL should be browsed (else only returned as a string)

...

additional arguments passed to browseURL

Value

• a string containing a URL. Optionally, as a side-effect, the URL is visited in a browser

See Also

deg2rad, latlon2xyz and rgeo.

Examples

googleMap(40.7566, -73.9863, radius=1)   # Times Square
googleMap(position=rgeo(2), radius=1)    # 2 random locations