[R-sig-Geo] OT : get lat-long coordinates

[Stéphane Dray]

Dear list,

I have a question, not directly linked to R, but I hope that some people 
could help me. I have a paper, where there are some data that I would 
like to analyse with spatial tools. In the appendix of the paper, for 
each site, there are some data... but I do not have the spatial 
coordinates of sites, I have only the name of the site, e.g. : Blue 
Lake, WA 4. I would like to obtain coordinates (latitude and longitude) 
for these sites. All the sites are in USA and Canada. I have two questions :
- what means the number in the address ? eg. what "4" means in Blue 
Lake, WA 4 ?
- Do you know some sites/free tools that can be used to obtain the 
spatial coordinates ?

Thanks in advance,

Sincerely.


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