Obtain latitude and longitude from address without the use of Google API

Question

I am currently working on a large population-based database where it is required that I compute the distance between two addresses for each individual. My first train of tho

Answer 1

More options:

• The geonames package to retrieve information from the geonames service.
• The osmar package to use the API of openstreetmap.

Besides, the gdistance package is useful for distance calculations on geographical grids.