[R-sig-Geo] package to query Google for latitude and longitude for a given ZIP code

[Robert Hijmans]

>Hi, I was wondering if someone could direct me to a package that would 
>allow you to query Google (or any other resource) for the latitude and 
>longitude of a ZIP code. 

You can try the 'geocode' function in the dismo package. 

> geocode('03861')
     ID      lon      lat   lonmin    lonmax   latmin   latmax
[1,]  1 -71.0169 43.11589 -71.0731 -70.96072 43.08175 43.17245
> 

Robert

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