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Spatial search filter #2

Open benjiao opened 8 years ago

benjiao commented 8 years ago

From @rukku on November 25, 2015 10:58

Scenario: User inputs a place name (provinces level for now, lower if possible) and the map will zoom to that area's extents/bounding box.

Copied from original issue: phl-microsat-dpad/libra#10

lkpanganiban commented 8 years ago

May be we can use Geonames API or Nominatim for the initial setup. We can also dump the Geonames data for the Philippines in Postgis so we can have our own geocoding service.

Geonames Data http://www.geonames.org/export/

Geonames for Postgis https://github.com/jvarga/geonames-for-postgis

Dumping geonames data into postgis https://github.com/colemanm/gazetteer/blob/master/docs/geonames_postgis_import.md