Geographic Information Systems Asked by jnucc on October 4, 2021
I am still learning JS so please bear with me.
I have built a Mapbox GL JS map and would like to supplement Mapbox geocoding results with those from an external geocoding API as many POIs I need are not returned with the standard Mapbox geocoder (such as campsites and national parks).
I have followed the tutorial to supplement results by querying local data here: Supplement forward geocoding search results from another data source
I have got this to work with local a geojson source however I cant get it to work when querying an external geocoder. I am testing with OpenCage.
My code for the geocoder instance on the map is:
// Load geojson source data
var myjson;
$.getJSON("<github hosted file>", function(json){
myjson = json;
});
// Local geocoder function
function forwardGeocoder(query) {
var matchingFeatures = [];
for (var i = 0; i < myjson.features.length; i++) {
var feature = myjson.features[i];
if (feature.properties.road_name.toLowerCase().search(query.toLowerCase()) !== -1) {
feature['place_name'] = '? ' + feature.properties.road_name;
feature['center'] = feature.geometry.coordinates;
matchingFeatures.push(feature);
}
}
return matchingFeatures;
}
//Add geocoder/search box
var geocoder = new MapboxGeocoder({
accessToken: mapboxgl.accessToken,
localGeocoder: forwardGeocoder,
country: 'au'
});
This works fine for local data pulled in from a geojson source (i.e. already loaded in the client side). When I try to add an external geocoder into the forwardGeocoder()
function, the query returns the correct geocoded results and I can get them to appear in the console but they dont appear in the standard mapbox geocoder results list. Code for the external geocoder (using OpenCage to test).
function forwardGeocoder(query){
var matchingFeatures = [];
$.ajax({
url: 'https://api.opencagedata.com/geocode/v1/geojson',
method: 'GET',
data: {
'key': 'ab6ad6e3ad3043e2aeb897322ab038f0',
'q': query,
'pretty': 1
},
dataType: 'json',
statusCode: {
200: function(response){ // success
var listings = response.features;
//console.log(listings);
for (var i = 0; i < listings.length; i++) {
var feature = listings[i];
if (feature.properties.formatted.toLowerCase().search(query.toLowerCase()) !== -1) {
feature['place_name'] = '? ' + feature.properties.formatted;
feature['center'] = feature.geometry.coordinates;
matchingFeatures.push(feature);
}
}
console.log(matchingFeatures);
return matchingFeatures;
},
402: function(){
console.log('hit free-trial daily limit');
console.log('become a customer: https://opencagedata.com/pricing');
}
}
});
}
Console output from this function:
0:
center: (2) [145.516244, -37.4666249]
geometry: {coordinates: Array(2), type: "Point"}
place_name: "? Aeroplane Track, Toolangi VIC, Australia"
properties:
annotations: {DMS: {…}, MGRS: "55HCU6878852327", Maidenhead: "QF22sm18wa", Mercator: {…}, OSM: {…}, …}
bounds: {northeast: {…}, southwest: {…}}
components: {ISO_3166-1_alpha-2: "AU", ISO_3166-1_alpha-3: "AUS", _type: "road", continent: "Oceania", country: "Australia", …}
confidence: 7
formatted: "Aeroplane Track, Toolangi VIC, Australia"
__proto__: Object
type: "Feature"
__proto__: Object
length: 1
__proto__: Array(0)
I am able to get results of the geocode to appear correctly (in the same format as the local data version) in the console (console.log(matchingFeatures)
) but the subsequent return matchingFeatures
doesnt seem to work to add them to the mapbox geocoder results.
Been searching around for days with no luck. Annoyingly I feel like this is a common problem as the Mapbox geocoder results are lacking in many ways.
What you're trying to do won't work since the localGeocoder option to mapbox-gl-geocoder is synchronous, so it can't be used to supplement results from a 3rd party API without https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-geocoder/issues/157
Your best option is to either write the code to extend mapbox-gl-geocoder to do this, or write your own replacement of mapbox-gl-geocoder which can call two external services.
Answered by AndrewHarvey on October 4, 2021
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