v2.12.0 (issue210-address-as-parameter) - Adding ADDRESS as a potential parameter

[trevorrd]

This PR is to address issue210-address-as-parameter. I've made the changes to now allow developers to use an address instead of latitude and longitude coordinates. This is what I had commented on earlier and you, Thomas Schoffelen, had commented and said, It's not a use case I personally have, because I want to send users to a specific location rather than doing a search, but I can understand why that would be useful. I'm still happy to accept a PR for that functionality if you'd like to add it!

So here is my pull request. Please review it, give me any feedback, if you see anything I need to update or change please let me know.

[trevorrd]

I just noticed you have another PR that is going to convert this library into TypeScript (v3.0.0). If you want to do that first then we can go in and make similar changes we can do that too.

[tschoffelen]

Hi @trevorrd - apologies for the delay! The Typescript migration has now been completed, so if you're willing to update this, I'm happy to get this merged. Apologies for the duplicated work!

[trevorrd]

Hi @trevorrd - apologies for the delay! The Typescript migration has now been completed, so if you're willing to update this, I'm happy to get this merged. Apologies for the duplicated work!

Hey Thomas (@tschoffelen),
I've made the changes and pushed them up. This PR should be ready for a review. I've also been pretty busy in the last few weeks but I still feel these changes would be very beneficial.

Thanks!

[tschoffelen]

This is amazing work! One quick suggestion on the README, but looking very much forward to merging this soon!

Thanks again!!

[tschoffelen]

It's taken me way too long (apologies again), but it's merged! Thanks again @trevorrd for the amazing work on this, quite a big new feature you've shipped here!

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[OwenMelbz]

Hi,

Is anybody able to confirm this works with google maps on ios?

Every time we use the address field it, then launch maps it gets "google maps cant open this link"

[OwenMelbz]

Update:

After some debugging it looks like the url structure is wrong.

Referring to the google docs here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/urls/get-started it says all urls should have api=1 in, which we can see is used later on:

However for the address line it instead uses ?q=$address

whereas the docs about says it should be ?api=1&query=$address upon changing that, it worked, so i believe there is a bug there

PR to fix is here: #294

Would be great to get this merged asap if possible as we caught this issue during testing for a big app update which meant to be going out today :D

[trevorrd]

Update:

After some debugging it looks like the url structure is wrong.

Referring to the google docs here: https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/urls/get-started it says all urls should have api=1 in, which we can see is used later on:

However for the address line it instead uses `?q=$address` whereas the docs about says it should be `?api=1&query=$address` upon changing that, it worked, so i believe there is a bug there PR to fix is here: #294

Would be great to get this merged asap if possible as we caught this issue during testing for a big app update which meant to be going out today :D

Nice catch! Yes, open a bug ticket. I'm not sure how I missed that small query string parameter. I know I used it in my project for work and must have missed it as I was adding it to this library. If we could get the ticket opened and change that, it would be great. Thanks!

[OwenMelbz]

There's already a PR up for it here: #294