Allow manual location input in addition to map

[adolfintel]

The map takes forever to load on my device (loads at something like 20kb/s), it would be better to have a text field where I can input the location manually.

[ShadyGaDa]

Totally agree I uninstalled last one from impatience.

[thuryn]

I want to add this feature but it's not so easy as it looks like

[birdsarah]

@thuryn can you elaborate a bit more, maybe we can help. potentially something that only covers major cities - even from a dropdown - that then works together with the map might be helpful to at least get you to the right rough place in the map faster.

[thuryn]

OK, I would like to see the location with city and district. The first option is to search location by nominatim, I get lot of responses then and I need to filter them out. The second option is to search by owm, the result is really approximate - I cannot show the district of the city or even the city itself (if the city is not big one). I can combine both options - and it's possible to do ti. I don't say I cannot do it. I just say it's really not easy - so I'm not sure when I can give you the result.

[birdsarah]

I think my suggestion wasn't clear. I agree with your concerns about the complexity of dealing with manual text input.

To continue using the map as the input, but to speed up the process for people where the map is in dramatically the wrong place I propose the following:

1. User picks a city, or even a country, from a pre-defined drop-down list
2. This re-centers the map to that location
3. The user uses the map for the final precise location picking.

[maxerbox]

Very needed

[maxerbox]

Did you try this service ? http://photon.komoot.de/api/?q=berlin&lang=de