geocode_mapquest: Lookup coordinates using the MapQuest API

In KTH-Library/institutions: Global Research Identifier Database (GRID)

Lookup coordinates using the MapQuest API

Description

This function requires an environment variable to be set for MAPQUEST_API_KEY

Usage

geocode_mapquest(street, zip, city, country = "SE", location)

Arguments

street	character string for the street
zip	character string for the zip code
city	character string for the city
country	character string for the county, 2 letter abbreviation, by default "SE"
location	if provided should hold a full location string, other params would be disregarded

Details

Sign up for free for the API-key at https://developer.mapquest.com/plan_purchase/steps/business_edition/business_edition_free/register

Add your MAPQUEST_API_KEY to your .Renviron using file.edit('~/.Renviron')

Then add a line for MAPQUEST_API_KEY=<yourkey> Then run readRenviron('~/.Renviron') to load this environment variable into your session.

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Either use the street, zip, city and country parameters (all of them), or use only the location parameter.

Value

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