Any plans for web and other platforms?

[giorgio79]

🚀 Feature Requests

Hello,

Any plans for web and other platforms?
I was looking at other reverse geocoding packages, and the codebases are pretty similar (https://github.com/bazrafkan/google_geocoding) . Might be just enabling sg on the package page?

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Platforms affected (mark all that apply)

• 📱 iOS
• 🤖 Android

[giorgio79]

Created pull request for web, looks like all is needed is adding the platform
#53

I tried to fork the repo and then install it via pubspec, but getting this weird error:
(Probably because the project has a funky setup with some kind of plugin interface...
In pubspec I put

  geocoding:
    git:
      url: https://github.com/giorgio79/flutter-geocoding/tree/master/geocoding/
      ref: master
      publish_to: none
  flutter_chat_ui: ^1.0.2
  #https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_chat_ui

Git error. Command: `git clone --mirror https://github.com/giorgio79/flutter-geocoding/tree/master/geocoding/ C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Pub\Cache\git\cache\geocoding-f2a0042d85b3a12c080f9fc7de72aa6f8fe2ce3d`
stdout: 
stderr: Cloning into bare repository 'C:\Users\User\AppData\Local\Pub\Cache\git\cache\geocoding-f2a0042d85b3a12c080f9fc7de72aa6f8fe2ce3d'...
fatal: repository 'https://github.com/giorgio79/flutter-geocoding/tree/master/geocoding/' not found
exit code: 128

pub get failed (server unavailable) -- attempting retry 1 in 1 second...

[giorgio79]

I suspect in pubspec the entire platforms magic could be removed. Looking at other packages like https://github.com/bazrafkan/google_geocoding/blob/master/pubspec.yaml they omitted the platforms and pub.dev seems to test for all platforms: https://pub.dev/packages/google_geocoding/score

[giorgio79]

Also, if we look at the geocoding platform interface plugin, it is enabled for all platforms https://pub.dev/packages/geocoding_platform_interface/score

[gauravmehta13]

how to use for web?

[JDDV]

Hi @giorgio79, We've discussed this briefly if we should implement this or not. Our main concern is that we need to find a service (as mentioned in a comment in your PR you made) for the web support that can do the things we need (geocoding/reverse geocoding) but that is also free to use, reliable, stable, and accurate/good working. We will need to discuss this further and do a bit of research of what is possible and what not. We will look into this in the future, but I can not give you an estimated date when we will know more about this topic, or when we start implementing it.

[JDDV]

Hi @giorgio79 , I just made a proposal about this topic. It would help out a lot if you could read the #69 proposal and react to it.
The main problem is that in contrary to Android and Apples geocoding service, a geocoding web service is free to an extend, but paid if you exceed a certain request limit. This problem is all explained in the proposal, and it would help us out a lot if you could react to it!

Thanks in advance!