Getting latitude and longitude based on a location

September 9, 2024

I’m trying to get some latitudes and longitudes into my data based on locations which I do have and was wanted to know if there are any functions or packages that do this for my locations below? I have seen a package that looks potentially helpful called geocode but it requires an API code which I have no experience with at all.

locations = c('london','birmingham','madrid','paris','marseille')

>Solution :

Here is a solution using tidygeocoder package:

library(tidygeocoder)

locations = c('london','birmingham','madrid','paris','marseille')  

coordinates <- list()
for(i in locations){
  coordinates[[i]] <- geo(i)
}

print(coordinates)

$london
# A tibble: 1 × 3
  address   lat   long
  <chr>   <dbl>  <dbl>
1 london   51.5 -0.128

$birmingham
# A tibble: 1 × 3
  address      lat  long
  <chr>      <dbl> <dbl>
1 birmingham  52.5 -1.90

$madrid
# A tibble: 1 × 3
  address   lat  long
  <chr>   <dbl> <dbl>
1 madrid   40.4 -3.70

$paris
# A tibble: 1 × 3
  address   lat  long
  <chr>   <dbl> <dbl>
1 paris    48.9  2.35

$marseille
# A tibble: 1 × 3
  address     lat  long
  <chr>     <dbl> <dbl>
1 marseille  43.3  5.37