google_geocode function problem (bug?)

[dknykrisztina]

Hy, I´d tested this simple, short code before I get it through the whole address list, but it had got en error.

Script: library(googleway) key <- "my_key" df <- google_geocode(address = "5 Rue J-F Kennedy 8332 Luxembourg", key = key, simplify = TRUE)

Error in value[3L] : There was an error downloading results. Please manually check the following URL is valid by entering it into a browswer. If valid, please file a bug report citing this URL: https://maps.googleapis.com/maps/api/geocode/json?&address=5+rue+j-f+kennedy+8332+luxembourg&key=

I tested in Firefox and Internet Explorer with the URL, and it was fine: { "results" : [ { "address_components" : [ { "long_name" : "5", "short_name" : "5", "types" : [ "street_number" ] }, { "long_name" : "Rue J-F Kennedy", "short_name" : "Rue J-F Kennedy", "types" : [ "route" ] }, { "long_name" : "Olm", "short_name" : "Olm", "types" : [ "locality", "political" ] }, { "long_name" : "Capellen", "short_name" : "Capellen", "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_2", "political" ] }, { "long_name" : "District de Luxembourg", "short_name" : "District de Luxembourg", "types" : [ "administrative_area_level_1", "political" ] }, { "long_name" : "Luxembourg", "short_name" : "LU", "types" : [ "country", "political" ] }, { "long_name" : "8332", "short_name" : "8332", "types" : [ "postal_code" ] } ], "formatted_address" : "5 Rue J-F Kennedy, 8332 Olm, Luxembourg", "geometry" : { "location" : { "lat" : 49.6480276, "lng" : 5.9942782 }, "location_type" : "ROOFTOP", "viewport" : { "northeast" : { "lat" : 49.6493765802915, "lng" : 5.995627180291502 }, "southwest" : { "lat" : 49.6466786197085, "lng" : 5.992929219708498 } } }, "place_id" : "ChIJkR_lV8VMlUcRSUmeVhgUxV0", "plus_code" : { "compound_code" : "JXXV+6P Mamer, Luxembourg", "global_code" : "8FX7JXXV+6P" }, "types" : [ "street_address" ] } ], "status" : "OK" }

If somebody can help my, I´d appriciate it. Thnx, Krisztina

[SymbolixAU]

I can't reproduce your error

library(googleway)
# key <- "my_key"
df <- google_geocode(address = "5 Rue J-F Kennedy 8332 Luxembourg", key = key, simplify = TRUE)

df$results$geometry$location
#        lat      lng
# 1 49.62014 6.146283

df$results$address_components
# [[1]]
#                long_name             short_name                                  types
# 1                      5                      5                          street_number
# 2 Avenue John F. Kennedy Avenue John F. Kennedy                                  route
# 3             Luxembourg             Luxembourg                    locality, political
# 4             Luxembourg             Luxembourg administrative_area_level_2, political
# 5 District de Luxembourg District de Luxembourg administrative_area_level_1, political
# 6             Luxembourg                     LU                     country, political
# 7                   1229                   1229                            postal_code

Are you behind a firewall, or on a company or uni network?

[dknykrisztina]

Yes, I´m working from a company server. Maybe the problem is in the proxy settings?

[SymbolixAU]

yeah - see these similar issues

• 24

• 26 <- start here

• 66

• 150 <- this is slightly different

• 166

[SymbolixAU]

@dknykrisztina did any of those links solve your issue?

[jzadra]

I have this problem also. It is not reproducible - the next attempt works. I am not using a proxy.

[dcooley]

@jzadra

the next attempt works

The next attempt on the same address, or a different address?

[jzadra]

Same address.

[dcooley]

This is really hard to debug without a reproducible example. The fact it works sometimes for you suggests to me it's not an issue with googleway. Have you searched for similar issues when using the geocoding API direct from Google?

[sayac007]

It can be that the real address line you send to Google from R contains some invalid letters/characters, e.g. some French letters. Check the address for any symbols not contained in UTF-8 using this function: validUTF8(yorstring) If the result is "FALSE", replace invalid characters e.g. using gsub. To see which characters are invalid, use something like this: iconv(yorstring, "UTF-8", "UTF-8",sub="")

[emilyluckey]

It can be that the real address line you send to Google from R contains some invalid letters/characters, e.g. some French letters. Check the address for any symbols not contained in UTF-8 using this function: validUTF8(yorstring) If the result is "FALSE", replace invalid characters e.g. using gsub. To see which characters are invalid, use something like this: iconv(yorstring, "UTF-8", "UTF-8",sub="")

It works! I just try to change my address to UTF-8 by enc2utf8() . Thank you very much❤️❤️

(BTW I used an address from Taiwan in Traditional Chinese, hope the info could be helpful. )