Re: Map Library

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Tue, 2011-05-17 at 10:54 -0400, Michael Terry wrote:
> > The web service can return multiple answers, but we only pass on the
> > first one to the user of the API.
> Hrm.  Well, that's not sufficient for the Ubuntu-designed experience, 
> which uses autocompletion to allow choosing from several possible 
> matches.  So I suppose I'll be patching in our geonames code to this new 
> library.

Right now, it just uses libgweather. What makes you think we can't
change the API for the library though?

> Is there any interest in that code actually being upstream in the 
> library itself?  You sound like you have already made all your technical 
> choices, but perhaps there's room for an alternate solution living 
> inside the same library.

I think that I'd really like to see some code before we can say what
should and shouldn't be in the library.