Package: photon 1.0.0

photon: High-Performance Geocoding using 'photon'

Features unstructured, structured and reverse geocoding using the 'photon' geocoding API <https://photon.komoot.io/>. Facilitates the setup of local 'photon' instances to enable offline geocoding.

Authors:Jonas Lieth [aut, cre, cph]

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DESCRIPTION |NEWS
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photon/json (API)

# Install 'photon' in R:

install.packages('photon', repos = c('https://jslth.r-universe.dev', 'https://cloud.r-project.org'))

Bug tracker:https://github.com/jslth/photon/issues

Pkgdown/docs site:https://jslth.github.io

On CRAN:

5.85 score 7 stars 25 scripts 345 downloads 18 exports 37 dependencies

Last updated from:22e9ce7d3b. Checks:9 OK. Indexed: yes.

Target	Result	Time
linux-devel	OK	131
source / vignettes	OK	197
linux-release	OK	147
macos-release	OK	167
macos-oldrel	OK	171
windows-devel	OK	91
windows-release	OK	71
windows-oldrel	OK	89
wasm-release	OK	117

Exports:cmd_options download_database download_photon geocode get_instance get_photon_url has_java has_structured_support latinize list_regions new_photon photon_local process purge_java reverse run structured with_photon

Dependencies:askpass class classInt cli countrycode curl DBI e1071 glue httr httr2 jsonlite KernSmooth lifecycle magrittr mime openssl pillar pkgconfig processx proxy ps R6 Rcpp rlang rvest s2 selectr sf sys tibble units utf8 vctrs withr wk xml2

Importing a database

Importing from Nominatim | Import from a JSON dump

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Last update: 2026-02-28
Started: 2024-10-25

Introduction to {photon}

Offline geocoding

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Last update: 2026-02-27
Started: 2024-10-18

Citation

Development and contributors

Readme and manuals

Help Manual

Help page	Topics
Format command line options	cmd_options
Download search index	download_database list_regions
Download photon	download_photon
Unstructured geocoding	geocode
Photon utilities	get_instance get_photon_url
Is Java installed?	has_java
Latinization	latinize
Initialize a photon instance	new_photon
Local photon instance	photon_local
Purge Java processes	purge_java
Reverse geocoding	reverse
Structured geocoding	has_structured_support structured
Local photon instances	with_photon