Re: Map Library

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:26 -0400, Michael Terry wrote:
> On 05/16/2011 01:59 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > Turns out that Matthias asked me the exact same thing for the first time
> > wizard (it was supposed to be added to the control-center, but made more
> > sense in GDM).
> Good timing.  I was about to go create a custom map library for Ubuntu's 
> needs.  Seems I could learn a few things from Matthias about how to 
> request changes in control-center.  :)

Well, the main difference being that he seemed willing to do all the
work ;)

Though I must admit it was wrong of me to second-guess your licensing
requirements.

> > You guys can hash out what you need the widget to provide. I think it'll
> > probably be quite cumbersome to move, depending on whether you just want
> > the map widget, or the selection bits as well (the drop-downs we have
> > now are not the best, and I completely failed at trying to use
> > libgweather's location entry instead).
> In Ubuntu, we used a geonames-powered entry because it provides 
> population data as well as non-weather-station oriented results.  Is 
> that of any interest to you?  Ideally it could be added to this new library.

The problem is that it needs to work even when not online. And if we
were, we'd probably want to base the initial selection on the current
location (through Geoclue), and get the timezone using geocode-glib.

Or make this completely free-form, and look it up using geocode-glib.

Both option require a network, and we'd fallback to using the local data
from libgweather when not online.

Given that geonames is just another geocoding service, using
geocode-glib should give us the same thing.

Cheers