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In sckott/rwikispeedia: Interface to the Wikispeedia API.

rwikispeedia

rwikispeedia is a wrapper to the Wikispeddia API. Wikispeedia is "the Open Speed Limit Database". They are "gathering GPS-coordinates of every speed-limit sign on earth".

• Their homepage is here.
• Find them on Wikipeedia here.
• The short description of their API is here.

This is an example API call: http://www.wikispeedia.org/a/marks_bb2.php?name=all&nelat=35.198676&swlat=35.194676&nelng=-89.56558&swlng=-89.56958

Install dependencies

install.packages(c("RCurl", "XML", "plyr"))

Install rwikispeedia

install.packages("devtools")
library(devtools)
devtools::install_github("sckott/rwikispeedia")
library(rwikispeedia)

Get some data

getsigns(nelat=35.198676, swlat=35.194676, nelng=-89.56558, swlng=-89.56958)

         label         lat          lng mph kph cog alt_meters
1              35.19800509 -89.56761047  45   0 180       0.00
2       prasad 35.19800509 -89.56761047  45   0  45       0.00
3       prasad 35.19800509 -89.56761047  45   0  45       0.00
4       prasad 35.19800509 -89.56761047   0   0  45       0.00
5 durga prasad 35.19800509 -89.56761047  90   0  45       0.00
6              35.19786153 -89.56760511  45   0 180       0.00
7              35.19636122 -89.56752062  60   0 180       0.00

sckott/rwikispeedia documentation built on May 29, 2019, 4:05 p.m.