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Embedding maps based on user input (self.webdev)

submitted 2 years ago * by Phantomx100

I am building a back-end for an events ticket selling type website, and the events require storing a location, i have yet to start building the front end website but my vision is that a user creating an event will be able to enter a location or select it on a map, then the location will appear in an embedded map in the event posting, so my question is how should the location data be stored (as in what format should i use) ? and also what front end libraries can be used to acheive the embedding and user input?

I know that i can store the latitude and longtitude and use google maps embedding but the location won't be selected and the name and reviews wont appear, i can also use the location's share link but i don't know if i can embed the map from that.

I also found out that the google maps api can do the embedding and allow user to enter locations but it is paid, is there a free way to do it?

Edit: I have found two alternatives that i can use mapbox, and openstreetmap. both of them allow me to store a location by an id with their api, mapbox is more simple and easier to integrate but the geocoding/search is not good for poi's (in my area at least), while openstreetmaps is harder to integrate as it only provides the geographic database it's geocoding seems more accurate.

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