Map appearance for select : add "or_other" possibility

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Agreed this is likely to be common. @Ivangayton brought this up in his reflection here as well:

@Ivangayton

I think it would be fairly common to wish to add new points, in the same way that OpenMapKit did. In other words, if the feature exists in the real world, but not in the GeoJSON, you might wish to create a point and then fill out the same form, albeit without the pre-populated fields.

• I suppose a workaround could be using an XLSform that includes a Geopoint question that's relevant if there's nothing selected from the map.
• Yet another workaround would be to have a separate form that asks all the same questions but simply replaces the select from map with a geopoint. But you won't know that you need that until you've already tried to select the relevant point from the file.

I would go for the first suggestion and as I wrote in that thread, I'd give instructions in the label so it's visible on the selection map.

If leaving the value blank was problematic for some reason you could do something like put a point way off in the middle of the ocean and give instructions to select that as "Other" + set its label to "Other".

@mathieubossaert

"simple" button that returns a value

This would be a possibility. It would be kind of a partial "open select" where one value that's not in the list to select from (e.g. "other") would be allowed. My preference would be to leave this up to the form designer using the suggestions above.

Ultimately what y'all want is a more formal entity concept. We are really hoping we can spend some time trying to get to a more satisfying solution on that front.