Get geographic entities based on a bounding box

get_geo_box retrieves all geographic entities in Wikidata that fall between a bounding box between two existing items with geographic attributes (usually cities).

Usage

get_geo_box(
  first_city_code,
  first_corner,
  second_city_code,
  second_corner,
  language = "en",
  ...
)

Arguments

first_city_code

a Wikidata item, or series of items, to use for one corner of the bounding box.

first_corner

the direction of first_city_code relative to city (eg "NorthWest", "SouthEast").

second_city_code

a Wikidata item, or series of items, to use for one corner of the bounding box.

second_corner

the direction of second_city_code relative to city (eg "NorthWest", "SouthEast").

language

the two-letter language code to use for the name of the item. "en" by default.

\dots

further arguments to pass to dehttr:ink[httr::GET]GET.

Value

a data.frame of 5 columns:

• item the Wikidata identifier of each object associated with entity.

• name the name of the item, if available, in the requested language. If it is not available, NA will be returned instead.

• latitude the latitude of item

• longitude the longitude of item

• entity the entity the item is associated with (necessary for multi-entity queries).

See also

get_geo_entity for using an unrestricted search or simple radius, rather than a bounding box.

Examples

# Simple bounding box
bruges_box <- get_geo_box("Q12988", "NorthEast", "Q184287", "SouthWest")

# Custom language
bruges_box_fr <- get_geo_box("Q12988", "NorthEast", "Q184287", "SouthWest",
                                        language = "fr")