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R package: geonames

In order to use the geonames package, a user needs to register a username on geonames.org/login.
The account needs then to be enabled on geonames.org/manageaccount.
Then, in an R sessions, the registered username is used like so
options(geonamesUsername='registeredusername');
options(geonamesUsername=readline(prompt='Enter username for geonames.org: '));
options(geonamesHost="api.geonames.org");

library(geonames)

GNsearch(name = 'Wagenburg', country = 'CH');
Github repository about-r, path: /packages/geonames/search-Wagenburg-CH.R

See also

The packages nominatim, rdyn and ggmap.
R packages

Links

https://poldham.github.io/abs/geonames.html
https://ropensci.org/blog/2016/11/22/geospatial-suite/
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoNames

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