Geocoding Events

A wrapper around the Wikipedia API to return geo-coordinates of requested inputs.

Usage

geocode_wiki(event = NULL, pt = FALSE)

Arguments

event

character. a term to search for on wikipeida

pt

logical. If TRUE point geometery is appended to the returned list()

Value

a data.frame of lat/lon coordinates

See also

Other geocode: geocode_rev(), geocode()

Examples

if (FALSE) {
## geocode an Agency
geocode_wiki("NOAA")

## geocode an event
geocode_wiki("I have a dream speech")

## geocode a n event
geocode_wiki("D day")

## geocode a product
geocode_wiki("New York Times")

## geocode an event
geocode_wiki("Hurricane Harvey")
}