Kagi should implement Google's free and Open Source "Plus Codes" to locate specific areas on maps as an alternative to coordinates and the proprietary what3words model.
Plus Codes is like a street address, but it can uniquely identify an area on the whole globe akin to "adaptive resolution".
Example of "adaptive resuloution":
- Very precise area: 9F4MGC64+2W9 -> Short Version with identifying city: GC64+2W9 Berlin, Germany
- Less precise area, but still the same general location: 9F4MGC64+2 -> Shorter Version with identifying city: GC64+2 Berlin, Germany
- Even less precise area: 9F4M (this would encompass the whole of Berlin)
You can in theory expand this, by decreasing the "resolution" of the area the more you take away from the right side of the Plus Code. The adaptive resolution will make sense when you try the interactive grid map here (at the bottom of the page): https://grid.plus.codes/.
I'd like to see the following:
- The user can input a valid Plus Code (according to Google's spec) into the search box.
- Kagi Maps will interpret this Plus Code and zoom into the specified area.
- Kagi Maps can provide the "short version" of the Plus Code for a dropped pin or a selected point of interest on the map.
- Kagi Maps can provide the "extended version" of the Plus Code similar to the "short version" to include every speck of the world, not near a city.
- There are buttons near the Plus Codes to make copying them easy for sharing with others.
Attached are the two usecases for searching for a Plus Code as well as getting the Plus Codes of a selected point of interest. (I added the lat. long feature too, as it's basically already included in the URL of a POI).
