bb_lookup: Bounding box (and other metadata) lookup
In hrbrmstr/nominatim: Tools for Working with the 'Nominatim' API

Description Usage Arguments Value Examples

Perform a general Nominatim query and retrieve place metadata, including bounding box information

1	bb_lookup(query, viewbox = NULL)

query

search terms to pass to OSM Nominatim

viewbox

(optional) one of:

an atomic character vector with comma-separated values (e.g. "-4.37,54.88,2.04,52.96")
a 4-element vector specifying the viewbox (e.g. c(-4.37,54.88,2.04,52.96))
a named 4-element vector with top, left, bottom, right identified (e.g. c(top=-4.37, left=54.88, bottom=2.04, right=52.96)) in any order
a 2x2 matrix as returned by bbox; i.e. with rownames of x and y and column names of min and max

data.frame of places with metatata, including bounding box information

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bb_lookup("West Yorkshire", c(-4.37, 54.88, 2.04, 52.96))
bb_lookup("West Yorkshire", c(top=-4.37, left=54.88, bottom=2.04, right=52.96))
bb_lookup("United States")