Re: Map Library

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 10:10 -0400, Michael Terry wrote:
> On 05/16/2011 06:39 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 14:47 -0400, Michael Terry wrote:
> >> On 05/16/2011 02:38 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> >> Does geocode-glib provide population data?  (Or at least sort in a
> >> meaningful way, which is all we are using that data for.)
> > No, we only use it for geocoding. So that we'd guess your location
> > somehow (IP address, visible WiFi networks, GPS device, etc.) and pass
> > it to geocode-glib. geocode-glib would give us the approximate location,
> > including TZ information.
> >
> > Or the user would type "London", and it would guess the location
> > (including TZ) from that.
> So, geocode-glib will take a string and give you a single location as a 
> best guess of what the user meant?  Or does it return a set of possible 
> answers that the user can choose from (ala autocomplete) to choose from 
> all the Londons in the world?

The web service can return multiple answers, but we only pass on the
first one to the user of the API.