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mosaic (version 0.4-1)

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.