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Googleway

R Package for accessing and plotting Google Maps

From SymbolixAU·Updated January 10, 2026·View on GitHub·

Provides a mechanism to access various [Google Maps APIs](https://developers.google.com/maps/), including plotting a Google Map from R and overlaying it with shapes and markers, and retrieving data from the places, directions, roads, distances, geocoding, elevation and timezone APIs. The project is written primarily in HTML, distributed under the Other license, first published in 2016. Key topics include: google-map, google-maps, google-maps-api, google-maps-javascript-api, r.

Latest release: v2.7.2CRAN
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Homepage: http://symbolixau.github.io/googleway/

Provides a mechanism to access various Google Maps APIs, including plotting a Google Map from R and overlaying it with shapes and markers, and retrieving data from the places, directions, roads, distances, geocoding, elevation and timezone APIs.

Google Maps

v2.7

see News for a full list of changes and additions

See the vignette for instructions and examples.

v2.7.0001+ (dev)

Installation

## install release version from CRAN
install.packages("googleway")

## To install the development version you currently need v0.7.1002 of googlePolylines
devtools::install_github("SymbolixAU/googlePolylines")

## then you can install googleway
devtools::install_github("SymbolixAU/googleway")



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