[Qgis-developer] Geocoding plugin: a good case for merge

[Nathan Woodrow]

I quite like how the Locator bar in Qt Creator work by also allowing
prefixs for searching:

c - Class search
. - method search

Maybe we can reuse this idea, and even code from the Qt source code.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 8:36 PM, Martin Dobias <wonder.sk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all
>
> On Thu, Jun 9, 2016 at 12:07 PM, Richard Duivenvoorde
> <rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
> > What about something like that:
> > - we creating a gui-widget/toolbar for a geocoding search
> > - we create a python api for it (actually: implement a buttonless plugin
> > which registres the geocoder, and registres some slot/signals and does
> > (part of) implementation)
> > - by installing this plugin(s) you registre one or more geocoders, AND
> > the plugin author actually implements the calling/retrieving/parsing of
> > the results. We can maybe do some general standards in core (or via
> > gdal): like OGC-OpenLS interface, or OSM-based ones or so
> > - the core-geocoder gui then can look like the search bar in Firefox
>
> Richard's idea makes perfect sense to me - some sort of search
> functionality has been done by various plugins and it is probably time
> to offer a common way to do it with QGIS API.
>
> And I would not limit ourselves to just geocoding - there are other
> uses for that, e.g.:
> - gazetteers - for example Discovery plugin [1]
> - search in attributes of loaded layer(s)
>
> The API implementation could also take care of things like on the fly
> completion while user is still typing and running the queries in the
> background, so the GUI is not blocked. So a search plugin would only
> take care of processing search/geocoding/gazetteer query and response,
> all the rest would be handled by QGIS.
>
> We can start a QEP - if we have someone who volunteers to design and
> implement that (I think QEPs should not end up as feature requests).
>
> Cheers
> Martin
>
> [1] http://plugins.qgis.org/plugins/Discovery/
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