[GraphHopper] coordinate search by name

[Peter K]

This is not that easy as you'll have to combine street names with cities
(+village+country+zipcode) names while the import ...

Also if you do it this way I would rather use a real search engine like
lucene or elasticsearch.

Regards,
Peter.

> An idea is to import roads shapefiles from geofabrik.de in spatialite
> and make a sqlite database.
> After that you can search database for street names.
> Resulted SQLite database contains also the path of a street (a
> collection of geopoints) so you can reverse make a reverse geocoding.
>  
> *From:* Peter K <peathal at yahoo.de>
> *To:* GraphHopper Java routing engine <graphhopper at openstreetmap.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, July 4, 2013 1:53 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [GraphHopper] coordinate search by name
>
> Hey Dmitriy,
>
> such a name search is not available offline (yet) but if you have
> internet access you can use NominatimGeocoder
>
> Regards,
> Peter.
>
>> Good day!
>> I need to search coordinate search by name(String).
>> I understood the class com.graphhopper.serch but unfortunately did
>> not understand how to use it.
>> Please, tell me how to get the longitude and latitude of the location
>> by name?
>>
>> I'm sorry that I asked a lot of questions!
>>
>> -- 
>> Dmitriy Puchkov

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