[openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website] Added PlusCode functionality to search (#1818)

[Lukas Sommer]

> before you know it, 13 states in Africa have switched their addressing to the proprietary vendor

A valid concert. Many African countries do not have a working address system in use. Most streets don’t have names and even when they have names, the houses don’t have house numbers. There are some efforts for example in Benin, with financial support from France, to create public address systems ([street names + house numbers based on mathematical measurement](https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:WikiProjet_B%C3%A9nin#Le_nouveau_syst.C3.A8me_d.E2.80.99adressage_de_Cotonou)) but they are limited to some of the bigger cities. On the other hand, online-ordering and logistics are growing a lot currently in these countries, including small villages. So the post company of Ivory Coast is working since two years with what3words, which is proprietary and creates a vendor-look-in and can only be used by authorized apps and so on – something that in my opinion is not really helpful for the development in Ivory Coast.

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