bjarnef
commented
3 years ago I had a look at different approaches. The Esri plugin seems to be great but rely on the ArcGIS Online World Geocoding Service https://github.com/Esri/esri-leaflet-geocoder#terms-and-conditions and seems to require a subscription to use in production.
Leaflet.Control.Search seems to be offer many features as well, but doesn't look great out-of-the-box when using search outside the map.
I found examples using OpenLayers instead of Leaflet - both have pros and cons. For example something like this extension for Joomla seems to use OpenLayers: https://www.tassos.gr/joomla-extensions/advanced-custom-fields/docs/the-openstreetmap-field
Some examples I found requires an API Key although free to signup - some of these seems to have been a paid product or paid by number of request (similar to Google Maps).
However I found this example instead, which may work well using Leaflet: https://github.com/tomik23/Leaflet.Autocomplete There's a demo available here: https://tomik23.github.io/Leaflet.Autocomplete/
We could add a configuration property to hide/show search (but by default it think it make sense to show search by default).
Currently there is no easy way to find a specific address except zooming, panning and dragging the marker to a location.
It would be great to add a basic search feature to search a city or address.
There are different ways to solve this.
Esri Leaflet http://esri.github.io/esri-leaflet/
Leaflet.Control.Search https://opengeo.tech/maps/leaflet-search/
Alternatively it can also be a separate search input using the API from https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org https://nominatim.org/release-docs/latest/api/Search/