Re: Map Library

[Michael Terry <michael terry canonical com>]

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.  :)

> 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.

-mt