geo_lite {nominatimlite}

Address search API (free-form query)

Description

Geocodes addresses given as character values. This function returns the tibble associated with the query, see geo_lite_sf() for retrieving the data as a spatial object (sf format).

This function correspond to the free-form query search described in the API endpoint.

Usage

geo_lite(
  address,
  lat = "lat",
  long = "lon",
  limit = 1,
  full_results = FALSE,
  return_addresses = TRUE,
  verbose = FALSE,
  nominatim_server = "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/",
  progressbar = TRUE,
  custom_query = list()
)

Arguments

address

character with single line address, e.g. ("1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington") or a vector of addresses (c("Madrid", "Barcelona")).

lat

Latitude column name in the output data (default "lat").

long

Longitude column name in the output data (default "long").

limit

Maximum number of results to return per input address. Note that each query returns a maximum of 50 results.

full_results

Returns all available data from the API service. If FALSE (default) only latitude, longitude and address columns are returned. See also return_addresses.

return_addresses

Return input addresses with results if TRUE.

verbose

If TRUE then detailed logs are output to the console.

nominatim_server

The URL of the Nominatim server to use. Defaults to "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/".

progressbar

Logical. If TRUE displays a progress bar to indicate the progress of the function.

custom_query

A named list with API-specific parameters to be used (i.e. list(countrycodes = "US")). See Details.

Details

See https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/api/Search/ for additional parameters to be passed to custom_query.

Value

A tibble with the results found by the query.

See Also

geo_lite_sf(), tidygeocoder::geo().

Geocoding: geo_address_lookup(), geo_address_lookup_sf(), geo_amenity(), geo_amenity_sf(), geo_lite_sf(), geo_lite_struct(), geo_lite_struct_sf()

Examples

geo_lite("Madrid, Spain")

# Several addresses
geo_lite(c("Madrid", "Barcelona"))

# With options: restrict search to USA
geo_lite(c("Madrid", "Barcelona"),
  custom_query = list(countrycodes = "US"),
  full_results = TRUE
)