Re: Map Library

[Michael Terry <michael terry canonical com>]

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?

-mt