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Integrate with Google Maps API for location search
https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/places-autocomplete
We need to think on a way to provide event location for two reasons:
event address + event map
For this, there's the event_addresses
table. This should be pretty straightforward: the user types in an address, Google autocompletes it for us, as get the metadata and store it in the table. The table might need to store additional data so it becomes easier to display the map - maybe just sending the address would be enough, though.
Question: will we allow users to freetype addresses, without relating them to Google API? This could be useful for complicate addresses, such as including a floor or room, but could make it harder to geolocate later. An idea would be to use the autocomplete as a "CEP autocomplete", where the user types in the beginning of the address, selects one, and it autocompletes the following fields, which will then populate the event_addresses
table. The place_id
would be stored as well so we can easily retrieve the map area without having issues with address formats or complements (floor/etc).
notifications of interesting events in a given area
Here, the locations
table should be used. We should take into account that a city place_id
can be used both in the events
table and following_theme
, at the bare minimum.
Should we populate new used locations from Google into locations
and create the relations, or simply cache what's given by Google and store the place_id
without a real reference in the tables?
If we populate, we would do the following:
- user types in part of a place in the search box (for event creation or theme notification change)
- google autocomplete API retrieves a place for us
if there's no
location.place_id
in the table, we insert in - we use the
location.id
as the FK
Question: would we need the place_id
to be FK as well, or use it as the main ID? What would place_id
be used for?
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