tmap (version 1.6)

rev_geocode_OSM: Reverse geocodes a location using OpenStreetMap Nominatim

Description

Reverse geocodes a location (based on spatial coordinates) to an address. It uses OpenStreetMap Nominatim. For processing large amount of queries, please read the usage policy (http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim_usage_policy).

Usage

rev_geocode_OSM(x, y = NULL, zoom = NULL, projection = "longlat", as.data.frame = NA, server = "http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org")

Arguments

x

x coordinate(s), or a SpatialPoints object

y

y coordinate(s)

zoom

zoom level

projection

projection in which the coordinates x and y are provided

as.data.frame

return as data.frame (TRUE) or list (FALSE). By default a list, unless multiple coordinates are provided.

server

OpenStreetMap Nominatim server name. Could also be a local OSM Nominatim server.

Value

A data frmame with all atributes that are contained in the search result

See Also

geocode_OSM

Examples

## Not run: 
# data(metro)
# 
# five_cities <- metro[sample(length(metro), 5), ]
# 
# addresses <- rev_geocode_OSM(five_cities, zoom = 6)
# 
# five_cities <- append_data(five_cities, addresses, fixed.order = TRUE)
# 
# tmap_mode("view")
# tm_shape(five_cities) +
# 	tm_markers(text="city")
# ## End(Not run)