places_table: Import the latest geonames dump page
In poldham/places: Access the Geonames Data Export Service

Description Usage Format Details Value Examples

View source: R/places_table.R

Used to fetch the latest geonames daily dump page containing the latest updates.

1	places_table()

name: filename with extension, character
last modified: character
size: chr
description: character
filename: character
file type: character
url: character
iso: two letters iso country code, character
other: non iso files

The function fetches the geonames daily dump page at http://download.geonames.org/export/dump/ consisting of a table with "Name", "Last Modified", "Size" and "Description". The Name field is parsed to create a file_name and file_type column. The files are a mix of individual country files (e.g. AD.zip) and other files (e.g. allCountries.zip, admin2Codes.txt etc.). To facilitate country name matching the file name is parsed into iso2c (iso) for two letter country codes. This allows the table to be joined with other data sources.

a data frame containing the geonames daily dump page contents.