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Feature request: option to disable reverse geocoding that relies on 3rd party

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Requirement

An option disable the geocode / reverse geocode requests being sent to https://nominatim.openstreetmap.org every time we pin / move markers on the frontend interface and a route is plotted.

Reasons / Motivations:

  • Don't want to put unnecessary load on the openstreetmap core server; want to do our bit in helping the community by at least not unnecessarily adding burden to the servers.

  • Target users need to see lat-longs of manually pinned locations and copy-paste them in a convenient way; cannot expect them to figure out and decode from the complicated URL.

  • Company policy requires prior approvals for all egress destinations from the company's servers; pings to uninvolved 3rd parties like nominatim.openstreetmap.org every time the application is used cannot be justified and might get flagged by securty/audit folks. Blocking them non-elegantly causes error messages, bad UX in the application.