Meetups: one search for where, a place or a street address

[renrenmimi]

Creating or editing a meetup used to start with a choice between "A place" and "An address". The search behind "A place" only finds named spots, so a home address found nothing, and nothing said why. Event apps have one location field instead, and this does the same.

Where is now one search (ApplePlacePicker, ApplePlaceFinder(findsAddresses: true))

• On Return, Apple Maps is searched for places and for street addresses at the same time. The new PlaceDirectory.searchAddresses uses MKLocalSearch with .address.
• Results come in two groups, Places and Addresses. A last row, Use "…" as the address, takes the words as typed.
• An address search that fails still leaves the places, and the typed-words row, on screen.

Choosing an address

• It fills an Address field that can still be edited, for a flat number say.
• Apple's map shows under it while the words are still Apple's (terms 2.4), and goes once they are edited.
• Only the words are sent, exactly as for a typed address; nothing else Apple said goes with them. MapKitPlaceDirectory keeps each address found as the answer for its own words, so the meetup's page needs no second lookup.
• Choose somewhere else goes back to the search. A meetup made on the web shows where it was and offers Keep where it was during a search.

Add a Place

• Still takes only spots on Apple Maps, and never searches for addresses.
• A footer under its search says so.
• When nothing is found, it says that a home or street address can't be a place but a meetup can be at one.

Tests

• Unit:
  • the address search runs only when asked, keeps the places when it fails, and remembers what was searched for;
  • an address Apple found is sent as words only;
  • the typed words can be the address;
  • starting again clears the address and label;
  • "keep where it was" works for web meetups only;
  • the directory caches addresses by their words;
  • the stand-in finds street addresses.
  • Full unit suite: 1061 passed, 0 failed.
• UI:
  • updated the typed-address create test and the edit test;
  • added testCreatingAMeetupAtAnAddressAppleMapsFound, which checks the map shows, the map goes once the words are changed, and the stored private address;
  • re-ran create at an Apple place, add a place, and place search. All 6 pass.
• The catalog has Chinese for the 9 new strings. The 4 that are no longer used are removed, and the harvested keys match the catalog (975 keys).

Screenshots: ios-native/docs/visual-parity/meetup-where-search.jpg. The new section is in visual-parity.md, and apple-maps-places-plan.md notes what is stored for an address.

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