Comments on: Calling Google Maps API from R

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[...] to points of interest longitude / latitude, here churches stored in a vector eglises (use e.g. this to geolocalise places of interest). Then run this code from Baptiste’s [...]

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By: Pierre Jacob

Pierre Jacob — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:42:47 +0000

Thanks a lot, we’re honored!

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By: Pierre Jacob

Pierre Jacob — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:23:55 +0000

Cheers, that’s very interesting. I’m adding it to the post.

By: Earl F Glynn

Earl F Glynn — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 18:11:51 +0000

Here’s an article I wrote about using R to geocode a list of >10,000 names. With the 2500/day Google geocode limit, the output file from one day after some minor editing became the input file for the next day:

Geocoding addresses from Missouri Sex Offender Registry
http://www.franklincenterhq.org/2541/geocoding-addresses-from-missouri-sex-offender-registry/

By: Pierre Jacob

Pierre Jacob — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:04:13 +0000

All the credit goes to the guys there:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3257441/geocoding-in-r-with-google-maps

By: Pierre Jacob

Pierre Jacob — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 21:03:05 +0000

Kay: it would not work, since the list of strings would result in a long string in the “paste” inside gGeoCode (as if you asked for several places at once when using Google Maps).

However you can easily make the call inside a loop, for instance.

By: Pawel

Pawel — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 20:02:43 +0000

Great job – simple and sweet.

By: kay

kay — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 18:21:29 +0000

..nice!
keep up the good work!

one question: would i have to call the function for each place, or would this thing also work for a list of places?

best,
kay