geo_address_lookup_sf: Address lookup API with 'sf' output

In nominatimlite: Interface to the 'Nominatim' API

Address lookup API with sf output

Description

The lookup API queries the address and other details of one or more OSM objects, such as nodes, ways or relations, and returns the sf object associated with the query using sf. See geo_address_lookup() for retrieving the data in tibble format.

Usage

geo_address_lookup_sf(
  osm_ids,
  type = c("N", "W", "R"),
  full_results = FALSE,
  return_addresses = TRUE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  nominatim_server = "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/",
  custom_query = list(),
  points_only = TRUE
)

Arguments

osm_ids	Vector of OSM identifiers as numeric values, for example c(00000, 11111, 22222).
type	Character vector of the OSM object type associated with each osm_ids value. Possible values are node ("N"), way ("W") or relation ("R"). If a single value is provided, it will be recycled.
full_results	Return all available data from the Nominatim API. If FALSE (default), only address columns are returned. See also return_addresses.
return_addresses	Return input addresses with results if TRUE.
verbose	If TRUE, detailed logs are output to the console.
nominatim_server	URL of the Nominatim server to use. Defaults to "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/".
custom_query	Named list with API-specific parameters, for example list(countrycodes = "US"). See Details.
points_only	Logical TRUE/FALSE. Whether to return only point geometries (TRUE, which is the default) or potentially other shapes as returned by the Nominatim API (FALSE). See About geometry types.

Details

See https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/api/Lookup/ for additional parameters to be passed to custom_query.

Value

An sf object with the results that match the query.

About geometry types

The parameter points_only specifies whether the function results will be points (all Nominatim results are guaranteed to have at least point geometry) or other geometry types.

Note that when points_only = FALSE, the type of geometry returned depends on the object being geocoded. Administrative areas, major buildings and the like will be returned as polygons, rivers, roads and similar features will be returned as lines, and amenities may still be returned as points.

This function is vectorized, allowing multiple addresses to be geocoded. With points_only = FALSE, multiple geometry types may be returned.

See Also

Address lookup: geo_address_lookup()

Geocoding: geo_address_lookup(), geo_amenity(), geo_amenity_sf(), geo_lite(), geo_lite_sf(), geo_lite_struct(), geo_lite_struct_sf()

sf outputs: bbox_to_poly(), geo_amenity_sf(), geo_lite_sf(), geo_lite_struct_sf(), reverse_geo_lite_sf()

Examples

# Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris

NotreDame <- geo_address_lookup_sf(osm_ids = 201611261, type = "W")

# Require at least one non-empty object
if (!all(sf::st_is_empty(NotreDame))) {
  library(ggplot2)

  ggplot(NotreDame) +
    geom_sf()
}

NotreDame_poly <- geo_address_lookup_sf(201611261,
  type = "W",
  points_only = FALSE
)

if (!all(sf::st_is_empty(NotreDame_poly))) {
  ggplot(NotreDame_poly) +
    geom_sf()
}

# Vectorized input

several <- geo_address_lookup_sf(c(146656, 240109189), type = c("R", "N"))
several

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