Android：按名称搜索位置，无需使用 Google 地方信息或地图 SDK

Question

I'm looking for a way to search a location using name. The location being an object with longitude and latitude data.

I want to achieve this without using Places SDK or Maps SDK, as they are paid services in the long run (if I'm not mistaken)

I've tried using Geocoder, but it seems like it only works if you are searching for a country. Ideally, I would like to be able to search for city as well. GeoCoder returns an empty list for this usecase. Using LocationManager only allows me to get the last known location of the user, so that's not it either.

Is there such a way to achieve this?

Answer 1

I tried Geocoder again, and it seems my first take wasn't accurate. The requirement for Geocoder seems to be that you need to provide an actual name that matches any entry, otherwise it's gonna be null.

For the meantime, I think this should work for me. But if there's any other way that allows me to search for any location without complete name would be better

Answer 2

You can use a few open-source maps for achieving this like OpenStreetMaps or HereMaps.