You may want to look at http://www.openstreetmap.org/ or http://maps.cloudmade.com/ instead of google maps. I don't know if they give the same detail/searches, but open source sites tend to be easier to work with and have fewer restrictions on use. While I like the google maps, I tend to not use them for anything other than personal browsing since I am not sure about the legal/copyright issues.
Hope this helps, -- Gregory (Greg) L. Snow Ph.D. Statistical Data Center Intermountain Healthcare greg.s...@imail.org 801.408.8111 > -----Original Message----- > From: r-help-boun...@r-project.org [mailto:r-help-boun...@r- > project.org] On Behalf Of Nutter, Benjamin > Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 1:42 PM > To: r-help@r-project.org > Subject: [R] Retrieving latitude and longitude via Google Maps API > > Does anyone have any experience retrieving latitutde and longitude for > an address from the Google Maps API? > > I'd like to have an R script that submits a street address, city, > state, > and zip code and returns the coordinates. So far, I've been submitting > the coordinates from another program, then loading the coordinates in R > and merging them back into the data frame I want to use. It'd be nice > to be able to do it all in one script, but I'm not comprehending the > API > thing very well. > > I'm using R 2.9.1 on Windows XP. Any suggestions or pointers? > > Benjamin > > > > Benjamin Nutter | Biostatistician | Quantitative Health Sciences > Cleveland Clinic | 9500 Euclid Ave. | Cleveland, OH 44195 | > (216) 445-1365 > > > =================================== > > P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail > > Cleveland Clinic is ranked one of the top hospitals > in America by U.S.News & World Report (2009). > Visit us online at http://www.clevelandclinic.org for > a complete listing of our services, staff and > locations. > > > Confidentiality Note: This message is intended for > use\...{{dropped:13}} > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting- > guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
