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Frontend: Destination Search Bar #5

Closed cw00dw0rd closed 3 years ago

cw00dw0rd commented 3 years ago

The current "Where to?" input needs to be functional. It is currently just a placeholder that does nothing.

This will have some dependence on the backend and potentially overlap with #4 .

Simran-B commented 3 years ago

Geocoding plugin for leaflet.js to search for an address etc. and get a location back: https://github.com/smeijer/leaflet-geosearch

More options: https://leafletjs.com/plugins.html#geocoding

OSM's Nominatim service should work for our purposes and doesn't require an API key. Docs: https://nominatim.org/release-docs/develop/api/Search/

Example request: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=brandenburg%20gate JSON result: https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search.php?q=brandenburg%20gate&polygon_geojson=1&format=jsonv2