Define a place associated with a fact

place(
  name = character(),
  phonetic_var = character(),
  romanised_var = character(),
  latitude = character(),
  longitude = character(),
  notes = character()
)

Arguments

name

The jurisdictional name of the place. Jurisdictions are separated by commas, for example, "Cove, Cache, Utah, USA."

phonetic_var

A named character vector of phonetic variations of the place name. Element names must give the phonetisation method used in transforming the text to the corresponding phonetic variation. i.e. c(method1 = "var1", method2 = "var2")

romanised_var

A named character vector of romanised variations of the place name. Element names must give the romanisation method used in transforming the text to the corresponding romanised variation. i.e. c(method1 = "var1", method2 = "var2")

latitude

The value specifying the latitudinal coordinate of the place. The latitude coordinate is the direction North or South from the equator in degrees and fraction of degrees carried out to give the desired accuracy. For example: 18 degrees, 9 minutes, and 3.4 seconds North would be formatted as "N18.150944"

longitude

The value specifying the longitudinal coordinate of the place. The longitude coordinate is Degrees and fraction of degrees east or west of the zero or base meridian coordinate. For example: 168 degrees, 9 minutes, and 3.4 seconds East would be formatted as "E168.150944".

notes

A character vector of notes accompanying the place. These could be xrefs to existing Note records.

Value

A tibble describing a place.