Comment 9 for bug 1525156

Awesome, I didn't notice the tossing-data or compression aspects; that's nice that we got it so small.

In terms of data you are throwing away, I notice you throw away the alternate names. Can you stop doing that and expose that info instead? On the phone side of things, we are trying to add support to libtimezonemap for exposing those names so that we can use them when searching for a timezone. And thus be a little less English-centric.

See https://code.launchpad.net/~mterry/timezonemap/alternate-names/+merge/280194

(Alternatively, you could add alternateNames.txt to the geonames package, but that's 400MB uncompressed...)

All your improvements are good improvements. I'm just surprised that we are creating a new project for the library rather than a new library inside the timezonemap project. It struck me as a very NIH approach to timezonemap which is in fact something we invented. :) But I get that some of the improvements you made would be a total different API anyway.

I'm just sore that I apparently wasted the effort on the above MP. :-/