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

[Lukas Sommer]

> a better alternative, of which I'm not sure there are any that can rival what3words!

Well, in countries where much more than half of the territory do not have neither Internet coverage nor even mobile phone coverage and many villages not even electric power supply (they charge their smartphones – yes, they have smartphones – with photovoltaic) PlusCodes seem to be clearly the better choice than what3words – also from a technical point of view: No need for neither a 10 MB word database that works only for a particular language nor for an Internet connection. Instead light code that works also on older smartphones.

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