Geocoder improvements

[mramato]

For the most part, these are just my ideas/suggestions left over from #1157 If you have other ideas, or feel that any of these don't belong, let me know.

• Add event for flight completion
• Clear Geocoder when home button is pressed
• Add button to clear text field rather than making the user hit backspace a bunch (this is a bigger pain on mobile)
• Detect touch support and remove hover from style sheet to fix focus issues on mobile.
• If Bing supports it, auto-completion would be great.
• The ability to specify a custom geocoder (with custom autocomplete suggestions).
• Possible have multiple geocoders each offering their own suggestions to allow for domain specific searching.
• Time based geocoding so that you can fly to an area at a particular time. (may be tricky to do)
• Bug with lon/lat positions: Geocoder lon/lat bug #4713

[emackey]

I'm not sure we need a separate "clear" button if we implement the home-clear thing. But I like these ideas.

[mramato]

The main problem is if I zoom to one place, then want to zoom to another, there's no way to clear. On the desktop, it's no big deal. On touch devices, it's a pain. Chrome for Android puts an X in the awesome bar to handle this, sadly it does not do it magically for all text fields. We could could add a small X icon to the left of the magnifying glass to do the same. But we have way bigger fish to fry for now, so I'm not worried about it.

[shunter]

Also, Google Maps has an X to clear their address bar.

[mramato]

I've started to work on this is branch issue1262. The x in the address bar is actually the result of changing the input field to type search, which is what we should be using. Bing also has autocomplete, which should be easy to use.

[pjcozzi]

For testing, it would also be nice to:

• enter a longitude, latitude in degrees and fly to it.

[GatorScott]

It would be really nice to make time a first class citizen in this search tool.

[pjcozzi]

enter a longitude, latitude in degrees and fly to it.

I needed this for testing, it is in the geocoder-fly branch.

[pjcozzi]

This was requested on the forum:

• Custom queries

[hpinkos]

"It is not recommended to use the geocoding service to power an auto complete function" forum post

The bing maps "locations" REST API doesn't have any way of asking for the top results that start with whatever you are typing, so it currently cannot be used for autocomplete.

[hpinkos]

Pretty much everything in this issue is addressed. I'm going to close this and open a new issue for the 1 mobile fix we still have to make.

[cesium-concierge]

Congratulations on closing the issue! I found these Cesium forum links in the comments above:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/cesium-dev/Pr2vv87299I

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