[R-sig-Geo] geonames API for R

[Edzer Pebesma]

Looks great, Barry.

I think to show the potential and to seduce people to start using this, 
it would be very valuable to add a few examples, preferably one for each 
of the items in http://www.geonames.org/export/ws-overview.html , or 
just the most dissimilar ones.

Right now you assume that users can figure out how to form requests by 
looking at the above link alone. I, for instance, couldn't.
--
Edzer

Barry Rowlingson wrote:
> After the initial query about finding timezones in R, I've gone mad
> and written an entire package for querying all of (well, most of)
> geonames.org.
>
> It's hosted on R-Forge:
>
> http://geonames.r-forge.r-project.org/
>
> and recently submitted to CRAN. Install from the R-forge repo with:
>
> install.packages("geonames",repos="http://R-Forge.R-project.org")
>
> if anyone else wants to help develop it, get an R-forge account and
> I'll add you in.
>
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