Filtering location search results

[Pedro Guimarães]

As I understand, the default (only) implementation for the location search bar on the map view is an OSM / Nominatim one. The autocomplete returns suggestions in a full format, with all the administrative regions. There should be an easy way to select the fields returned, or maybe the returned values could be simplified City/Estate/Country. Neither can the user apply other filters, such as the country or the language. On the GeoNode side, for instance, it is impossible to achieve such effects, leaving only the "messing with mapstore core" alternative.

Is this a desirable feature?

[Mauro Bartolomeoli]

Good morning Pedro,

Il giorno mar 5 mag 2020 alle ore 22:54 Pedro Guimarães <tigr...@gmail.com> ha scritto:

As I understand, the default (only) implementation for the location search bar on the map view is an OSM / Nominatim one.

Yes, that's the default, but not the only option. Also custom WFS services can be configured. You can find some documentation on that here: https://mapstore.geo-solutions.it/mapstore/docs/api/plugins#plugins.Search

 

The autocomplete returns suggestions in a full format, with all the administrative regions. There should be an easy way to select the fields returned, or maybe the returned values could be simplified City/Estate/Country.

Unfortunately the result display for Nominatim is not configurable at the moment. This is hardcoded here: https://github.com/geosolutions-it/MapStore2/blob/master/web/client/components/mapcontrols/search/geocoding/NominatimResult.jsx#L32

 

Neither can the user apply other filters, such as the country or the language. On the GeoNode side, for instance, it is impossible to achieve such effects, leaving only the "messing with mapstore core" alternative.

Is this a desirable feature?

Both the features you describe are for sure desiderable. The first one, introducing a configurable template for Nominatim results, should not be that difficult.

The other one would require more effort. Let me see if I understood correctly what you need:

 - display results taking into account current selected language

 - allow filtering by "administrative region(s)": are you thinking of a global admin configuration setting or something that the users can change map by map?

 

Do you think you can contribute in any way to make these desires come true?

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Regards,

Mauro Bartolomeoli

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[Mauro Bartolomeoli]

Hi Pedro,

a little addition to what I told you.

Have a look at this issue comment: https://github.com/geosolutions-it/austrocontrol-C125/issues/142#issuecomment-603159483

If what you need is to limit search result with a global admin configuration setting, that can be done as described in the issue.