Re: Map Library

[Michael Terry <michael terry canonical com>]

On 05/16/2011 02:38 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> 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.
Does geocode-glib provide population data?  (Or at least sort in a 
meaningful way, which is all we are using that data for.)
-mt