RGNRS

R package for accessing the Geographic Name Resolution Service

Description

The GNRS package for R (a.k.a. the RGNRS) provides users with access to the Geographic Name Resolution Service (GNRS) API in R. The Geographic Name Resolution Service takes in the names of political units and standardizes them following https://www.geonames.org/ . More information on the GNRS can be found on the BIEN website (https://bien.nceas.ucsb.edu/bien/tools/gnrs/), and code underlying the GNRS can be found on Github at https://github.com/ojalaquellueva/gnrs.