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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.

Version: 1.0.0-1
Imports: utils, cli, countrycode, httr2, R6, sf, processx, rvest
Suggests: testthat (≥ 3.0.0), tibble, knitr, rmarkdown, webfakes, ps
Published: 2026-04-10
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.photon
Author: Jonas Lieth ORCID iD [aut, cre, cph]
Maintainer: Jonas Lieth <jslth at outlook.com>
BugReports: https://github.com/jslth/photon/issues
License: Apache License (≥ 2)
URL: https://github.com/jslth/photon/, https://jslth.github.io/photon/
NeedsCompilation: no
Materials: README, NEWS
CRAN checks: photon results

Documentation:

Reference manual: photon.html , photon.pdf
Vignettes: Importing a database from Nominatim (source, R code)
Introduction to {photon} (source, R code)

Downloads:

Package source: photon_1.0.0-1.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: photon_1.0.0-1.zip, r-oldrel: photon_1.0.0-1.zip
macOS binaries: r-release (arm64): not available, r-oldrel (arm64): not available, r-release (x86_64): photon_1.0.0-1.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): photon_1.0.0-1.tgz
Old sources: photon archive

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