mapbox / mapbox/mapbox-gl-geocoder
forward geocode a lat/long input
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- Dominant language
- JavaScript
- Stars
- 388
- Forks
- 181
- PR merge metrics
- No merged PRs in 30d
Description
In Google Maps you can type either a lat/long or a geocoder search into the search box and it will fly there. mapbox-gl-geocoder cannot handle the former, which is both surprising to the user and a limit to its usefulness.
Ideally if you entered a lat/long input it would recognise it (regex?) and simply fly straight there without needing to call to the geocoder api.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by locating the search-box handling and the path that sends queries to the geocoder API, then inspect how the control moves the map after a result. Define and test recognition of latitude/longitude input; done means valid coordinate searches fly directly to the location without an API call while ordinary geocoder searches continue to work.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- javascript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100