Description
Interface to the "Geonames" Spatial Query Web Service.
Description
The web service at <https://www.geonames.org/> provides a number of spatial data queries, including administrative area hierarchies, city locations and some country postal code queries. A (free) username is required and rate limits exist.
README.md
geonames
R package for accessing the geonames.org API
Install from here using devtools:
install.packages("devtools")-- if you don't have devtools yetrequire(devtools)install.packages("rjson")-- gets this dependency from CRANinstall_github("ropensci/geonames")
A version of this will be pushed to CRAN.
To enable all of the functions of this package, register for a geonames.org username at http://www.geonames.org/login/ and then enable access to the geonames free webservices by clicking http://www.geonames.org/enablefreewebservice Once that's done, in your R session, run options(geonamesUsername="myusername") to authenticate with the webservice. More information about the parameters for many of the functions in this package can be found here: http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html.
