dismo (version 0.7-11)

geocode: Georeferencing with Google

Description

A wrapper around the Google geocoding web-service. It returns 0 to n matches. It is important to be as precise as possible, e.g. always include the country in the locality description. The purpose of using this function should be to display the locations on a map in a browser. You should check the Google terms of use http://code.google.com/apis/maps/terms.html to see if your usage of this function (and the underlying Google API) is permitted.

Usage

geocode(x, oneRecord=FALSE, extent=NULL, progress='')

Arguments

x

A vector of locality descriptions

oneRecord

Logical. If TRUE a single record for each item in x is returned by averaging the coordinates and taking the union of all bounding boxes

extent

An Extent object, or an object that can be coerced to one, to bias the search towards that region

progress

Character. Valid values are "" (no progress indicator), "text" (the default) and "windows" (on that platform only)

Value

• matrix

See Also

biogeomancer

Examples

geocode(c('1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington DC', 'Luca, Italy', 'Kampala'))
geocode(c('San Jose', 'San Jose, Mexico'))
geocode(c('San Jose', 'San Jose, Mexico'), oneRecord=TRUE)