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Algolia Places - Intelligent address autocomplete for any <input>

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Algolia Places provides a fast, distributed and easy way to use address search autocomplete JavaScript library on your website. It has been designed to improve the user experience of your HTML forms.

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Like it!
Looking cool. Excited to try it in current project.
yepa!
In zip codes for The Netherlands only 4 numbers are showed, the 2 letters that come afterwards are missing. This should be the format: 1234XY. Rest looks fine and accurate, small places as well. Lightning fast. 👍
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Thanks for the feedback; I'll make sure we work on improving that!
This looks great! Any way to get the timezone of the location that's returned?
It's still not to accurate in Mexico. But it's a great idea! :)
How can I use your address suggestions in my iOS app?
Maker
We've been promoting the JavaScript a lot, but the other API clients are coming. In the meantime, here is the documentation of the underlying REST API:
Cool. Can I make a request to the places indice then with the "ASAPIClient"? How would such a query look?
Maker
No you cannot as-is; you'll need to use that new REST API endpoint. It's actually wrapping a few Algolia Search queries & custom logic for the Places use-case. We'll soon release a blog post explaining how we built that, diving into technical details of the implementation.
This is a good start, but nowhere close to where I want it to be so it could fit my use case at Stay22.com (where we work mostly with Venues and POIs, and our autocomplete is already mixed with Algoia and Google Places using Bloohound from bootstrap)
I like the idea but it's going to need a lot of work before it's really usable for most serious applicataions. Simple example: type "USA" (it shows small towns in Eastern Europe) or type a zipcode, or type "England" (it defaults to London, and then England, Arkansas - it never shows England as an area). This isn't Aloglia's issue but the limitations of openstreetmap data. It's messy. While this works for most inputs - the tag-line "turn any input" would be misleading, at least right now until they have enough user data to improve it. I do like the idea and am glad it's been worked on.
Cool.. anything with Algolia, autocomplete and input is definitely time saving
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