geocodingjavascriptmapboxmarkers
I recently added Mapbox's Geocoder Control and it works wonderfully. I was wondering if anyone could tell me how I could have a marker appear at the location of the address that was searched for? Below is the code I'm currently using for the control.
.addControl(L.mapbox.geocoderControl('mapbox.places', {
position: 'topright',
keepOpen: false,
autocomplete: false
}))
This should get you started. Python and the BeautifulSoup module to the rescue. The code below will print out a list of the 26 addresses on that webpage. I used Firebug in Firefox to look at the page source, which told me that the cell width was 37%. I gambled that those cells were maybe the only ones at 37% width, and was right. You should be able to feed the list of addresses you get into a online geocoder and get point locations.
import BeautifulSoup as bs
import urllib2
url = 'http://www.phillypal.com/pal_locations.php'
response = urllib2.urlopen(url)
html = response.read()
soup = bs.BeautifulSoup(html)
addresses = soup.findAll('td', {'width':'37%'})
print len(addresses)
for address in addresses:
print address.find(text=True)
The primary industry that uses this is the real estate industry, and planning and government. The TRS system is the basis for the legal descriptions that describe the locations of land parcels in most of the United States.
There are a number of ways that the bounds of a land parcel may be described, but at some point, whether at the parcel level, or subdivision level, it is tied back into the TRS system. The caveat to this is that it mostly applies to land west of the Mississippi aside from Texas, the states bordering the Great Lakes, and the southern states aside from Georgia.
There are likely other uses, but I think this is the primary, and most critical in the context of property ownership rights in the US.
Best Answer
Jonatas' answer works great. If you're using the goecode autocomplete, use the 'select' event instead of the 'found' event. Here is how I place a marker for the geocoded result: