geoAddress: geoAddress

In RandallShanePhD/geoPlot: Geocodes street or ip addresses and plots them on a map.

Description

Implements a lookup using the revised March 2013 Google Maps API to determine point coordinates for a given address.

Usage

geoAddress(x)

Arguments

x

x is a list or data frame containing: id, address, city, state/province, postal & country. The id is simply an identifier field and the remaining address elements do not have to be universally populated. A concatenation of the vector elements occurs but the input specification is only rigid in that an id field and 4 elements are needed.

Details

The GoogleMaps API is interfaced by rendering an address via URL in the following format:
PATTERN: http://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/xml?address=num+street+city+state+zip+country&sensor=false
The output is a web page containing the XML document with the data fields which are then ingested.

Value

The returned value is a list containing the elements: id, address, latitude, longitude (point coordinates).

id	User defined identifier.
address	Concatenated address data.
latitude	Point coordinate - latitude.
longitude	Point coordinate - longitude.

Author(s)

Randall Shane, PhD
[e-mail]

See Also

addrListLookup, geoPlot

Examples

x <- c("001","1600 Pennsylvania Ave","Washington","DC","20006","US")
geoAddress(x)

RandallShanePhD/geoPlot documentation built on May 18, 2019, 1:34 p.m.