Get coordinate from location

Get coordinate from location

getCoord(
  address,
  key = NULL,
  city = NULL,
  sig = NULL,
  output = "data.table",
  callback = NULL,
  keep_bad_request = TRUE,
  ...
)

Arguments

address	Required. Structured address information. Rules: Country/Region, Province/State, City, County/District, Town, Country, Road, Number, Room, Building.
key	Optional. Amap Key. Applied from 'AutoNavi' Map API official websitehttps://lbs.amap.com/dev/
city	Optional. Specify the City. Support: city in Chinese, full pinyin, citycode, adcodehttps://lbs.amap.com/api/webservice/download. The default value is NULL which will search country-wide. The default value is NULL
sig	Optional. Digital Signature. How to use this argument? Please check herehttps://lbs.amap.com/faq/account/key/72
output	Optional. Output Data Structure. Support JSON, XML and data.table. The default value is data.table.
callback	Optional. Callback Function. The value of callback is the customized function. Only available with JSON output. If you don't understand, it means you don't need it, just like me.
keep_bad_request	Optional. Keep Bad Request to avoid breaking a workflow, especially meaningful in a batch request
...	Optional. For compatibility only

Value

Returns a JSON, XML or data.table of results containing detailed geocode information. See https://lbs.amap.com/api/webservice/guide/api/georegeo for more information.

See also

extractCoord

Examples

if (FALSE) {
library(amapGeocode)

# Before the `getCoord()` is executed,
# the token should be set by `option(amap_key = 'key')`
# or set by key argument in `getCoord()`

# Get geocode as a data.table
getCoord("IFS Chengdu")
# Get geocode as a XML
getCoord("IFS Chengdu", output = "XML")
}