Search for a place and return an sf data frame locating it

This (only internal and experimental) function provides a simple interface to the nominatim service for finding the geographical location of place names.

oe_search(
  place,
  base_url = "https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org",
  destfile = tempfile(fileext = ".geojson"),
  ...
)

Arguments

place: Text string containing the name of a place the location of which is to be found, such as "Leeds" or "Milan".
base_url: The URL of the nominatim server to use. The main open server hosted by OpenStreetMap is the default.
destfile: The name of the destination file where the output of the search query, a .geojson file, should be saved.
...: Extra arguments that are passed to sf::st_read.

Value

An sf object corresponding to the input place. The sf object is read by sf::st_read() and it is based on a geojson file returned by Nominatim API.