ggmap (version 1.3)

revgeocode: Reverse geocode

Description

reverse geocodes a longitude/latitude location using Google Maps.

Usage

revgeocode(location,
    output = c("address", "more", "all"),
    messaging = FALSE, sensor = TRUE)

Arguments

location

a location in longitude/latitude format

output

amount of output

messaging

turn messaging on/off

sensor

whether or not the geocoding request comes from a device with a location sensor

Value

• depends (at least an address)

Details

note that the google maps api limits to 2500 queries a day.

See Also

http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/geocoding/

Examples

gc <- as.numeric(geocode('Baylor University'))
revgeocode(gc)
revgeocode(gc, output = 'more')
revgeocode(gc, output = 'all')