places_archive: Download an archive of the All Countries (all data) table

In poldham/places: Access the Geonames Data Export Service

Description

The allcountries file is a reference file of the Geonames daily data dump from 2018-01-01 containing 11,180,293 georeferenced place names. The Geonames daily data dump for all countries (Geonames allCountries.txt). The package reference file from 2018-01-01 contains 11,180,293 georeferenced place names in a 364MB compressed rda file. As this is a large file it can take a while. To import the most recent file use places_download.

Usage

places_archive()

Format

A data.frame with 20 variables

geonameid

name

asciiname

alternatenames

latitude

longitude

feature_class

feature_code

iso

cc2

admin1_code

admin2_code

admin3_code

admin4_code

population

elevation

dem

timezone

modification_date

download_date

Details

Column names converted to lower case, punctuation and spaces replaced with underscores. The download_date column is added by places_import.

Source

(Geonames allCountries file)

References

Citation: Geonames AllCountries (http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/allCountries.zip).

Examples

## Not run: places <- places_archive(),
load("allcountries.rda")
## End(Not run)

poldham/places documentation built on Aug. 19, 2019, 8:33 p.m.