Click and bookmark places on the map without searching.

[orblivion]

Sort of the inverse: Instead of searching to find locations, click a location to find a nearby item. Google does this, I'm told.

This seems somewhat like a "reverse" search, but actually search already biases by location. So the query should be pretty easy I think.

The difficult parts will be as follows:

• Nearby places will be multiple, it may be unclear which the user wants
• Nearby places will not exactly be where the user clicks
• Nearby places rendered on the map might not show up in search results (and vice versa)
• When the user clicks, it needs to hit the network to find nearby places. This might be slow, and the user might not even need it; they might just be trying to add an arbitrary location with their own description.

Possible solutions:

• When a user clicks, they bring up a blank description, with a dropdown box that slow-loads with suggested nearby locations.
• Different UI for bringing up "blank" vs "search nearby". So the second category can be slow but the user is actually looking for the information that's slow coming.
• Pre-load nearby search results as the user scrolls and zooms, so nearby right-click finds are instant.