[R-sig-Geo] The geonames.org server changed / geonames package

[Tomislav Hengl]

Hi Barry, Edzer,

Just to let you know that geonames.org server changed from "ws.geonames.org" to "ws5.geonames.org"

See the info at: http://www.geonames.org/export/ 

Maybe you should add to your R package "geonames" an option to specify the server name manually,
e.g.:

setGNserver <- "ws5.geonames.org"


PS: Does anybody know more about how to utilize the Google maps services in R
(http://code.google.com/apis/maps/documentation/services.html)? (i.e. to get the same type of output
as in the case of geonames.org). These need to be combined with some Java script or similar right?

My idea is to automate the way to save an image shown in Google maps (e.g. as TIF), then obtain the
bounding coordinates, import to a GIS and use the image (high res satellite imagery) as a GIS layer.


Tom Hengl
http://spatial-analyst.net