General: General Queries

In geonames: Interface to www.geonames.org web service

Description

Query codes and timezones

Usage

GNcountryCode(lat,lng,lang,radius)
GNcountryInfo(country,lang)
GNcities(north,east,south,west,lang,maxRows)
GNtimezone(lat,lng,radius)

Arguments

lat	Decimal latitude. North is positive
lng	Decimal longitude. East is positive
radius	Search radius in km
lang	Language for internationalised returned text
country	Two-character country code
north,east,south,west	Decimal degree bounding box
maxRows	Limit on returned rows

Details

These functions query geonames for information about various things.

See http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html for a full description of valid arguments and return values.

Value

List or data frame objects with the query results.

geonames documentation built on May 2, 2019, 6:08 p.m.