walkshed: Return Walk Shed

In ajinkyaghorpade/walkscoreAPI: Walk Score and Transit Score API

Description

A function to preform the "Walking Distance" API Call.

Usage

walkshed(x, y, key)

Arguments

x	longitude of query location (numeric)
y	latitude of query location (numeric)
key	your Walk Score API key (string)

Details

The "Walking Distance" API call returns the geometry of a polygon which bounds network walking distance from the given origin point.

Value

Returns an object of class "Walkshed", which is basically a list with the following elements:

status	A code which tells the status of the request. The table of status codes can be found on the Walk Score API site. A status of 1 means a successful request.
origin	Latitude and longitude of the walkshed center.
geometry	Geometry type of walkshed.
coordinates	List of walkshed polygon vertexes, returned as a data frame with two columns.
radius	Network distance in miles.
snappedLong	longitude to which the input was snapped to.
snappedLat	latitude to which the input was snapped to.

Note

Visit www.walkscore.com for information on Walk Score and to obtain an API key

Author(s)

John Whalen

References

http://www.walkscore.com/professional/public-transit-api.php

Examples

## Not run: 
walkshed(-122.335,47.5815,"your key")

## End(Not run)

ajinkyaghorpade/walkscoreAPI documentation built on May 16, 2019, 6:42 p.m.