[R-sig-Geo] Address from Wikimapia

[boB Rudis]

Just be aware that their API limit is up to 100 requests in 5 minutes.

On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Ista Zahn <istazahn at gmail.com> wrote:
> Maybe. The API is documented at http://wikimapia.org/api. You can interact
> with the API using (e.g.) the httr or curl packages in R.
>
> Best,
> Ista
> On May 17, 2016 6:27 PM, "Miluji Sb" <milujisb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Is it possible to convert latitude and longitude into addresses in R using
> Wikimapia mapping instead of Google? The reason being that Wikimapia
> addresses have more details.
>
> This is the code I have been using but this obtains the information from
> Google.
>
> library(data.table)
> library(ggmap)
>
> coords<- structure(list(Lattitude = c(23.8642394, 23.8643628, 23.8645843,
> 23.8632958, 23.8632859), Longitude = c(90.3981852, 90.3981042,
> 90.3954784, 90.3940043, 90.3940025)), .Names = c("Lattitude",
> "Longitude"), row.names = c(NA, 5L), class = "data.frame")
>
> coords$textAddress <- mapply(FUN = function(lon, lat) revgeocode(c(lon,
> lat)), coords$Longitude, coords$Lattitude)
>
> Thank you!
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Milu
>
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