Topography: Topographic queries

Description Usage Arguments Details Value

Description

Get topographic (height) information.

Usage

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GNgtopo30(lat,lng)
GNsrtm3(lat,lng)

Arguments

lat

Decimal latitude. North is positive

lng

Decimal longitude. East is positive

Details

These functions query geonames for information about elevations. There are interfaces to SRTM3 and Gtopo30 data.

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.