ComByCoord: Get City by Coordinates

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Description

Get informations about a French city by its Coordinates (WGS-84). Please note that this package works only with French cities.

Usage

ComByCoord(lat, lon, postal = FALSE)

Arguments

lat	a character string with latitude (WGS-84)
lon	a character string with longitude (WGS-84)
postal	wether or not to include postal codes. Default is FALSE.

Details

Takes the latitude and longitude of a city, returns a data.frame with the available values.

Value

Returns a data.frame with name, INSEE code, postal code, INSEE department code, INSEE region code, population (approx), surface (in hectares), lat and long (WGS-84).

Note

If you don't know the coordinates of the city you're looking for, you can find it by using the ComByName function.

Examples

ComByCoord(lat = "48.11023", lon = "-1.678872") 
ComByCoord(lat = "48.74313", lon = "-3.460337", postal = TRUE)

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