GoogleNearbySearch: Search in Google Maps Nearby an Specific Location

In estebanlp/GoogleDataSearch: Dataframe building from Google Maps queries to allow for Spatial Economic Analysis

Description

Creates a data.frame object with the output of a query in Google Maps of places of given types nearby a given location.

User must have a valid API key from Google Places API Web Service to make this function work. For more information go to: https://developers.google.com/places/web-service

Usage

GoogleNearbySearch(query, lat, lon, radius, apikey)

Arguments

query	Is a string object with an specific query as it would be ask in the search bar of Google Maps.
lat	Latitude coordinate of the specific place where to find the query nearby.
lon	Longitude coordinate of the specific place where to find the query nearby.
radius	Radius of search in meters. How nearby lat and lon should we search for query?
apikey	Your API Key from https://developers.google.com/places/web-service

Value

This function returns a data.frame object with the search results of query nearby lat and lon within radius

Author(s)

Esteban Lopez

Examples

mysearch<-GoogleNearbySearch(query="korean food",lat=40.107336,lon=-88.226110,radius=500,apikey="yourAPIkeyhere")

estebanlp/GoogleDataSearch documentation built on May 16, 2019, 8:52 a.m.