support search for cities/addresses/points of interest

[g33kex]

There should be a way to search for a city, a street address, or a point of interest nearby.

Example of search string that should possible :

• New York
• 28 Something Street, Somecity
• United Kingdom
• Bar (to show bars nearby)

We could imagine a shortcut such as / (so we'll be typing /seachstring) and then have a drop down menu if there is multiple results.

[jaller94]

For an easy first implementation I recommend a shortcut like F for find or S for search. While it would be cool to offer this offline from the available map data, I assume that most searches will need to be forwarded to an online API. I have not done any address resolution yet and would be glad to see helping hands.

[temco]

I think so. Searching is a great function for this project and online mode is OK.

[cloudlena]

Great idea. We should also include / as a shortcut to keep the Vim folk happy ;-)

[rastapasta]

There's a long standing vision to create blessed-mapscii for the blessed cli framework - would make a lot of UI thingies much smoother to implement and, at the same time, allowing MapSCII to be used inside any blessed surrounding. Anyone up for the challenge? :)