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WeAreFairphone / fprsmap

This is a Leaflet map of the local Fairphoners communities
https://map.fairphone.community
GNU General Public License v3.0
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Implement reverse geocoding #4

Closed StefanBrand closed 7 years ago

StefanBrand commented 8 years ago

It would be great, if people could just type in their location and the map would find out longitude and latitude on its own.

Roboe commented 8 years ago

What would be the purpose for this kind of interaction? Introduce new points or move the map view to the typed location?

StefanBrand commented 8 years ago

The former. At the moment I go to http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/ to find out the coordinates of a city/location. It would be great to automate this. A user would then only have to give loc and the address lookup feature would output the coordinates automatically.

StefanBrand commented 7 years ago

Maybe Fairphone will provide workforce to implement this.

StefanBrand commented 7 years ago

The more I think about this, the more I think this should be done on the FP server side. Together with the GUI for entering data, they could provide a field with a drop down that automatically lets you choose a city/address as you type. Thus only coordinates would get passed to the map.