Search by street name/postcode in OpenLayers

Question

Can anyone help me search by street name in OpenLayers? I essentially want to be able to search fir streets/postcodes in openlayers in the same way I can search on google maps. Is this possible.

Thanks, Alan

Answer 1

No, its not that easy. You need to put up a search engine like nominatim for that purpose.

Answer 2

Openlayers is like a really good suspension and you are asking for a full-blown car. You have to find data that has what you want (like Openstreetmap), and load it to a queryable data store. Another option is to leverage something like the mapquest open data apis

Answer 3

Openlayer Geocoder (ESRI and Geonames) Example

http://projects.bryanmcbride.com/sandbox/OL_geocode.html#