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geocode

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Geocode

Description

Geocodes (finds latitude and longitude of) a location using the Google Geocoding API. Note: To use Google's Geocoding API, you must first enable the API in the Google Cloud Platform Console. See register_google().

Usage

geocode(
  location,
  output = c("latlon", "latlona", "more", "all"),
  source = c("google", "dsk"),
  force = ifelse(source == "dsk", FALSE, TRUE),
  urlonly = FALSE,
  override_limit = FALSE,
  nameType = c("long", "short"),
  ext = "com",
  inject = "",
  ...
)

mutate_geocode(data, location, ...)

geocodeQueryCheck()

geocode_cache()

write_geocode_cache(path, ...)

load_geocode_cache(path, overwrite = FALSE)

clear_geocode_cache(path)

Arguments

`location`	a character vector of street addresses or place names (e.g. `⁠"1600 pennsylvania avenue, washington dc" or "Baylor University"⁠`)
`output`	amount of output, `"latlon"`, `"latlona"`, `"more"`, or `"all"`
`source`	"google" for Google (note: "dsk" is defunct)
`force`	force online query even if cached.
`urlonly`	return only the url?
`override_limit`	override the current query rate
`nameType`	in some cases, Google returns both a long name and a short name. this parameter allows the user to specify which to grab.
`ext`	top level domain (e.g. "com", "co.nz"); helpful for non-US users
`inject`	character string to add to the url or named character vector of key-value pairs to be injected (e.g. c("a" = "b") get converted to "a=b" and appended to the query)
`...`	In `mutate_geocode()`, arguments to pass to `geocode()`. In `write_geocode_cache()`, arguments to pass to `saveRDS()`.
`data`	a data frame or equivalent
`path`	path to file
`overwrite`	in `load_geocode_cache()`, should the current cache be wholly replaced with the one on file?

Details

Note: geocode() uses Google's Geocoding API to geocode addresses. Please take care not to disclose sensitive information. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8972108/ suggest various alternative options for such data.

Value

If output is "latlon", "latlona", or "more", a tibble (classed data frame). If "all", a list.

Author(s)

David Kahle david@kahle.io

Examples


## Not run:  requires Google API key, see ?register_google

## basic usage
########################################

# geocoding is most commonly used for addresses
geocode("1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA")
geocode("1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA", urlonly = TRUE)

# google can also geocode colloquial names of places
geocode("the white house")

# geocode can also accept character vectors of places
geocode(c("the white house", "washington dc"))



## types of output
########################################

geocode("waco texas")
geocode("waco texas", output = "latlona")
geocode("waco texas", output = "more")
str(geocode("waco texas", output = "all"))

geocode(c("waco, texas", "houston, texas"))
geocode(c("waco, texas", "houston, texas"), output = "latlona")
geocode(c("waco, texas", "houston, texas"), output = "all") %>% str(4)



## mutate_geocode
########################################

# mutate_geocode is used to add location columns to an existing dataset
# that has location information

df <- data.frame(
  address = c("1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC", "", "houston texas"),
  stringsAsFactors = FALSE
)

mutate_geocode(df, address)
df %>% mutate_geocode(address)


## known issues
########################################

# in some cases geocode finds several locations



## End(Not run)

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