geo_amenity_sf: Geocode amenities with 'sf' output

In nominatimlite: Interface to the 'Nominatim' API

Geocode amenities with sf output

Description

Searches amenities as defined by OpenStreetMap in a restricted area defined by a bounding box in the form ⁠(<xmin>, <ymin>, <xmax>, <ymax>)⁠ and returns the sf object associated with the query using sf. See geo_amenity() for retrieving the data in tibble format.

Usage

geo_amenity_sf(
  bbox,
  amenity,
  limit = 1,
  full_results = FALSE,
  return_addresses = TRUE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  nominatim_server = "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/",
  progressbar = TRUE,
  custom_query = list(),
  strict = FALSE,
  points_only = TRUE
)

Arguments

bbox	The bounding box (viewbox) used to limit the search. It can be a numeric vector of longitude (x) and latitude (y) in the form ⁠(xmin, ymin, xmax, ymax)⁠, or a sf or sfc object. See Details.
amenity	character value or vector with the amenities to geocode, for example c("pub", "restaurant"). See osm_amenities.
limit	Maximum number of results to return per input address. Note that each query returns a maximum of 50 results.
full_results	Return all available data from the Nominatim API. If FALSE (default), only latitude, longitude and 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/".
progressbar	Logical. If TRUE displays a progress bar to indicate the progress of the function.
custom_query	Named list with API-specific parameters, for example list(countrycodes = "US"). See Details.
strict	Logical TRUE/FALSE. Force the results to be included inside the bbox. Nominatim's default behavior may return results located outside the provided bounding box.
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

Bounding boxes can be located using online tools such as https://boundingbox.klokantech.com/.

For a full list of valid amenities, see https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Key:amenity and osm_amenities.

See https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/api/Search/ 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

Amenity lookup: geo_amenity(), osm_amenities

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

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

Examples

# Usera, Madrid

library(ggplot2)
mad <- geo_lite_sf("Usera, Madrid, Spain", points_only = FALSE)

# Restaurants, pubs and schools

rest_pub <- geo_amenity_sf(mad, c("restaurant", "pub", "school"),
  limit = 50
)

if (!all(sf::st_is_empty(rest_pub))) {
  ggplot(mad) +
    geom_sf() +
    geom_sf(data = rest_pub, aes(color = query, shape = query))
}

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