geolocate: Geolocate historical toponyms

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Geolocate historical toponyms

Description

This function uses the API for the World Historical Gazeteer to geolocate place names. It takes the place name and region as inputs and returns a data frame with results, primarily the longitude and latitude.

Usage

geolocate(df, place = "place", iso = "iso")

Arguments

df	A data frame with two columns, places names and two-letter ISO codes for regions
place	A column with toponyms in the data frame
iso	A column of ISO codes for regions

Value

A data frame of the geospatial data

Examples

# Search for Paris and Edo (now Tokyo)
example.df <- data.frame("place" = c("Paris","Edo"), "iso" = c("FR","JP"))
geolocate(example.df)

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