get_wiki_data: Get Wikipedia articles for a location
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get_wiki_data

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Get Wikipedia articles for a location

Description

Use the Wikipedia API geosearch API to get Wikipedia articles for a location. See https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GeoData for more information. Only returns Wikipedia articles with coordinates.

Usage

get_wiki_data(
  location,
  dist = 100,
  diag_ratio = NULL,
  asp = NULL,
  unit = "meter",
  radius = FALSE,
  primary = NULL,
  details = c("type", "name", "region"),
  lang = "en",
  limit = 50,
  geometry = TRUE
)

Arguments

`location`	sf object. If multiple areas are provided, they are unioned into a single sf object using sf::st_union
`dist`	buffer distance in units. Optional.
`diag_ratio`	ratio of diagonal distance of area's bounding box used as buffer distance. e.g. if the diagonal distance is 3000 meters and the "diag_ratio = 0.1" a 300 meter will be used. Ignored when `dist` is provided.
`asp`	Aspect ratio of width to height as a numeric value (e.g. 0.33) or character (e.g. "1:3"). If numeric, `get_asp()` returns the same value without modification.
`unit`	Units for buffer. Supported options include "meter", "foot", "kilometer", and "mile", "nautical mile" Common abbreviations (e.g. "km" instead of "kilometer") are also supported. Distance in units is converted to units matching GDAL units for x; defaults to "meter"
`radius`	If TRUE, use dist as a buffer around the center of the location.
`primary`	If TRUE, search for primary coordinates. Set primary to "all" or "secondary" to search other coordinate types.
`details`	Additional detailed to return with results. Options include "type", "name", "country", "region"
`lang`	Language to search on Wikipedia; defaults to "en".
`limit`	Number of pages to return (max 500); deafaults to 50
`geometry`	If TRUE, return sf object. If FALSE, return dataframe. Defaults to FALSE.