Geocode cities instead of specific addresses

[briatte]

Dear @joelgombin and @pachevalier

Is there any way to get 'city-level' geocodes with banR, as with tidygeocoder::geo_osm?

It seems this was possible at some point, as in Joël's example in #6.

I basically want pseudo-centroids for city-level queries like "Lille, France", "Bondue, France" etc.

Hope you're both good!

[joelgombin]

I think that this is related to #24 and will be solved if I can implement it.

[joelgombin]

Anyway it does work at the moment, doesn't it?

See:

banR::geocode("Lille")

You may want to then filter the results:

banR::geocode("Lille") %>% 
  dplyr::filter(type %in% "municipality")

[briatte]

You are correct, twice -- #24 is a more elaborate version of my question, and yes, banR does what I want, but only if, I just realised, I do not append "France" to the query:

• "Valserhône" finds the municipality
• "Valserhône France" finds only addresses

Thanks!

[joelgombin]

I guesd that's because the BAN is only about French adresses. Le dim. 29 mars 2020 à 11:35, François Briatte <notifications@github.com> a écrit :

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