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coordinates2politics

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Coverts latitude and longitude coordinates to politics expressions.

Description

A function to return the countries, states, provinces, cities, constituencies and neighborhoods that the latitude and longitude point lies within (from DSTK website).

Usage

coordinates2politics(latitude, longitude, session=getCurlHandle())

Arguments

`latitude`	The latitude (numeric) of the point you wish to reference.
`longitude`	The longitude (numeric) of the point you wish to reference.
`session`	This is the CURLHandle object giving the structure for the options and that will process the command. For curlMultiPerform, this is an object of class code MultiCURLHandle-class.

Value

Returns a JSON string.

Author(s)

Ryan Elmore

References

http://www.datasciencetoolkit.org/developerdocs#coordinates2politics

Examples

	## Not run: 
		coordinates2politics(37.769456, -122.429128)
	
## End(Not run)