GeoIdentify
GeoIdentify[enttype]
identifies the geographic entities of the type enttype in which the current geo location is contained.
GeoIdentify[enttype,loc]
identifies the entities in which the location loc is contained.
identifies the entities of any type in which the current geo location is contained.
Details and Options
- GeoIdentify returns a list of Entity objects representing extended geographic regions.
- In GeoIdentify[enttype,loc], loc can be any geo location object, including GeoPosition objects; geo entities of domains such as "City", "Country" or "HistoricalCountry"; Dated[…] objects; GeoVariant[…] expressions; and more.
- In GeoIdentify[enttype,loc], enttype can be specified as an Entity object, such as Entity["Country"], or as a string, such as "City".
- Valid forms for enttype include:
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"Country" country, territory, etc. "City" city "AdministrativeDivision" administrative division of any level "AdministrativeDivision1" first-level administrative division "AdministrativeDivision2" second-level administrative division "AdministrativeDivision3" third-level administrative division "HistoricalCountry" historical countries, regions, empires, etc. "MilitaryConflict" military conflicts "Ocean" ocean "USCounty" US county "USState" US state "ZIPCode" US ZIP code Dated[ent,date] entities of type enttype in date GeoVariant[enttype,variant] entities using variant regions EntityClass["type","class"] individual members of class enttype1enttype2… any of the enttypei All any possible type - The location loc can be specified as a GeoPosition, an Entity object, or a GeoGraphics primitive.
- In GeoIdentify[] and GeoIdentify[regtype], the location is taken to be the current setting for $GeoLocation.
Examples
open allclose allBasic Examples (4)
The country of your current location:
The center of the Atlantic Ocean is not in any country:
It is basically only contained in the ocean itself:
The state and ZIP code of GeoPosition[{42.11`,-89.24`}]:
Scope (10)
Geographic Data (6)
All entities containing the Willis Tower:
The city and country containing the Empire State Building:
Administrative divisions containing your current location:
The county at the center of the United States:
Hawaii is in the United States:
But it is not in this main landmass:
Determine inside which, if any, NAFTA country your current location is contained:
Historical Data (4)
Find the historical countries that contained the battle of Zama at the time of the battle:
Using Dated with the entity type will return results specifying the date of spatial overlap:
Using a non-historical entity with a historical entity type will compute overlaps, ignoring date information:
Restrict the search to a given date range using Dated with the entity:
Restrict the search to a given date range using Dated with the entity type, obtaining overlap intervals:
Identify the historical entity containing a given geo position on a given date:
Options (1)
"FullyContained" (1)
By default, an entity is considered to contain the location if it covers a portion of the location:
The option "FullyContained"->True excludes entities that cover only a portion of the location:
Applications (1)
Properties & Relations (3)
GeoIdentify always returns a list:
If the location queried is an extended region, there may be multiple containing entities:
For extended locations loc, GeoIdentify[enttype,loc] is essentially equivalent to GeoEntities[loc,enttype]:
Text
Wolfram Research (2014), GeoIdentify, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoIdentify.html (updated 2024).
CMS
Wolfram Language. 2014. "GeoIdentify." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. Last Modified 2024. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoIdentify.html.
APA
Wolfram Language. (2014). GeoIdentify. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/ref/GeoIdentify.html