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SmarterPoland (version 1.5)

getGoogleMapsAddress: Geolocalisation with Google Maps

Description

Get geolocalisation (longitude, latitude) of a given adress with the use of Google Maps API.

The Google Maps API is used to determine the geolocalisation (longitude, latitude) of a given adress.

Usage

getGoogleMapsAddress(street = "Banacha 2", city = "Warszawa", 
	country="Poland", positionOnly = TRUE, delay=1)

Arguments

street
An address (street and building number)
city
City
country
Country
positionOnly
What should be returned, vector with longitude, latitude coordinates or the raw result from Google Maps API
delay
Number of seconds to wait between api calls

Value

  • If positionOnly=TRUE then a vector with two values or a raw list from Google Maps otherwise.

References

The Google Maps API https://developers.google.com/maps/

Examples

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getGoogleMapsAddress()

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