Add Location autocomplete

[wondersoftheworld]

Team, can you utilize the Google location api for the location field in the app so users can choose from suggested locations as they type? Thanks.

[karllhughes]

@wondersoftheworld I like the idea of a location auto-complete. Here's a tutorial on how to use Google's Places API for autocomplete: http://www.w3docs.com/learn-javascript/places-autocomplete.html

Any interest in making a PR for this? It may be a while before I can get to it.

[soleo]

How about using OpenStreetMap? It takes a little bit more effort to make it work, but there won't be any request limit. I think you can only use google's place API for certain amount of requests per day or per second.

API Reference: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Nominatim

e.g. http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Chicago,IL&format=json&addressdetails=1

[karllhughes]

That's pretty cool. Definitely like the no-limits. I don't believe @wondersoftheworld is working on a PR so if you're interested in pursuing it @soleo feel free!

If not, we can keep this here for the time being.

[soleo]

I was wrong about http://nominatim.openstreetmap.org/search?q=Chicago,IL&format=json&addressdetails=1 . As their usage policy point out says

Unacceptable Use
The following uses are strictly forbidden and will get you banned:

Auto-complete search This is not yet supported by Nominatim and you must not implement such a service on the client side using the API.

But other API services which use openstreetmap still can be considered as an alternative option.