Environment: Topographic queries

Description

Get topographic (height) information.

Usage

GNfindNearByWeather(lat,lng)
GNweather(north,east,south,west,maxRows)
GNweatherIcao(ICAO)
GNearthquakes(north,east,south,west,date,minMagnitude,maxRows)

Arguments

lat

Decimal latitude. North is positive

lng

Decimal longitude. East is positive

north, east, south, west

Bounding box region in decimal degrees

maxRows

Limit number of returned rows

ICAO

ICAO weather station code

date

earthquake query date

minMagnitude

Minimum earhtquake magnitude

Value

List or data frame objects with the query results.

Details

These functions query geonames for information about weather and earthquakes.

Note capitalisation of 'NearBy'... See http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html for a full description of valid arguments and return values.