NEWS

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nominatimlite 0.6.0 (2026-06-03)

• The minimum required R version is now 4.1.0.
• Documentation has been proofread and aligned across roxygen2 comments, README and vignettes with AI assistance.
• Internal code has been refactored with AI assistance to reduce duplication in URL construction, progress handling, coordinate validation and output preparation without changing the public API.
• User-facing messages have been clarified with AI assistance, including unreachable API endpoint messages, capped limit messages and empty structured query messages.

nominatimlite 0.5.0 (2026-03-18)

• API calls are cached in tempdir() during the current session to reduce load on the service.
• API calls now wait 1.2 seconds between requests to reduce overload risk.
• Vignettes have been migrated to Quarto.

nominatimlite 0.4.3 (2026-01-11)

• Minor fixes in reverse functions.

nominatimlite 0.4.2 (2024-12-17)

• Update documentation.

nominatimlite 0.4.1 (2024-07-19)

• geo_address_lookup() and geo_address_lookup_sf() now validate long OSM IDs without crashing (#47, reported by @lshydro).

nominatimlite 0.4.0 (2024-05-27)

• Adapt endpoints to Nominatim v4.4.0 [Python-only].

• API calls for non-spatial functions now use JSONV2 format (&format=jsonv2), so class is renamed to category and place_rank is added with the search rank of the object.

• The custom_query argument now supports vectors and logical values:

  geo_lite(address = "New York",
           custom_query = list(addressdetails = TRUE,
                               viewbox = c(-60, -20, 60, 20))
           )
  

• The nominatim_server argument lets nominatimlite use a local server (#42, @alexwhitedatamine).

• geo_amenity() and geo_amenity_sf() are back as wrappers of geo_lite_struct() and geo_lite_struct_sf(), making them more robust and compatible with sf objects.

• geo_lite_struct() and geo_lite_struct_sf() are new functions for structured queries.

• nominatimlite::osm_amenities has been reintroduced with updated data and additional description fields.

• Unnesting fields requested with custom_query = list(extratags = TRUE) is improved.

nominatimlite 0.3.0 (2024-03-01)

• geo_lite(), geo_lite_sf(), reverse_geo_lite() and reverse_geo_lite_sf() gain a progressbar parameter to display progress in the console.

Deprecated

• geo_amenity() and geo_amenity_sf(), see Nominatim/issues/1311. Use arcgeocoder::arc_geo_categories() as an alternative.
• nominatimlite::osm_amenities dataset deleted.

nominatimlite 0.2.1 (2023-08-15)

• Remove osmdata from Suggests.
• Fix examples.

nominatimlite 0.2.0 (2023-05-11)

• Improvements in code and tests.
• rlang and tibble are no longer explicitly required. Conversions to tibble happen with dplyr::tibble().
• sf object attributes are now returned as tibbles for easier printing in the console.
• sf objects now handle nested fields provided in the JSON response, such as the nested address field, consistently with non-spatial functions.
• reverse_geo_lite() and reverse_geo_lite_sf() output is improved when the API returns nested lists.

nominatimlite 0.1.6 (2022-06-10)

• Improve results when there is no response from the API.

nominatimlite 0.1.5 (2021-11-26)

• Avoid de-duplication on results.

nominatimlite 0.1.4 (2021-10-28)

• Fix issues with geo_amenity() and geo_amenity_sf().

nominatimlite 0.1.3 (2021-10-21)

• Skip API query tests on CRAN to avoid false positives.
• Centralize API queries on (internal) function api_call().
• Queries now fully honor the Nominatim Usage Policy. Queries may be slower now.

nominatimlite 0.1.2 (2021-10-07)

• New internal function: nominatim_check_access().
• Adapt tests to testthat v3.1.0.

nominatimlite 0.1.1 (2021-09-30)

• Adapt tests to CRAN checks.

nominatimlite 0.1.0 (2021-09-16)

• CRAN release.
• Adjust query rate limits to Nominatim policy.
• New strict argument on geo_amenity() and geo_amenity_sf().
• Parameter polygon changed to points_only (#8) thanks to @jlacko.
• Package now fails gracefully if the URL is not reachable.

nominatimlite 0.0.1

• Initial version of the package.