Guild Wars 2

Please add a search bar to the world map that lets you search for any previously visited map, region, waypoint or point of interest by its name, and then centers the map on that location. Thanks.

You can use the web map to search. Hover on the compass icon on the top right corner and use the search bar in the zone list popup. You can type a location type, such as “heart” to find Renown Heart tasks.

I don’t think Anet will add this feature given that the Materials Storage window still doesn’t have search despite constant suggestions.

You might want to try here:
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Map
or
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyria

These pages and their separate sub pages will show you each section and what is there in each map. If you do find something extra or missing you make some updates to the pages since it is player driven with a little help from ANet.

The point is to improve usability.

I could tab out to a browser, find the chat code for the place I need, paste it in chat and then click that. OR I could try to remember where exactly the place is on the map and scroll to find it the hard way.

But really I’d just like to open the map, start typing and press enter to center the map on that location.

If you type the name of a waypoint then they might even make it so pressing enter immediately takes you there.