Please remove geoclue-yahoo, the Yahoo Maps API is disabled

[Jason Conti]

As documented here: http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2011/06/yahoo-maps-apis-service-closure-announcement-new-maps-offerings-coming-soon/ the Yahoo Maps API service ended September 13, 2011, and this API is used by the geoclue-yahoo provider.

If this provider is the only one available, it causes heavy CPU usage in indicator-datetime-service as found in bug #918546

This issue may be fixable upstream by updating the provider to use the new Yahoo Placefinder API since the geoclue api key seems to be valid with this service and the responce format seems basically the same. I have filed it upstream here: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=45004 but until then, the geoclue-yahoo package should probably be removed from the build.

[Jason Conti (jconti)]

The Yahoo Maps API was shut down on September 13, 2011: http://developer.yahoo.com/blogs/ydn/posts/2011/06/yahoo-maps-apis-service-closure-announcement-new-maps-offerings-coming-soon/

This may be fixable by updating to the newer Yahoo Placefinder API http://developer.yahoo.com/geo/placefinder/guide/index.html (the api key works with the examples, and the result format seems similar), although where the maps api was rate limited to 5000 queries per IP per day, the Placefinder API seems to be limited to 50000 queries per application per day, so that may be an issue.

[Javier Jardón (jjardon)]

You can use geocode-glib to access this service (Its already using the new Placefinder API). The plan is to remove geocoding and reverse geocoding from geoclue: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2011-May/msg00072.html

http://git.gnome.org/browse/geocode-glib

[Bastien Nocera (hadess-deactivatedaccount)]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 40882 ***