Comment 20 for bug 892370

On 28 September 2012 22:09, James M. Leddy <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks much for testing. I've been meaning to test on the ubiquity side
> of things, but I haven't been able to build an image with those packages
> yet. I'm not sure if they're using a different package or what's going
> on. Every time I have tested in a running install offline I was able to
> select Beijing. However, clicking on a given city is pretty tough to do,
> since there are a lot of locations in geonames. The trick is to continue
> clicking without using the mouse. When this is done the pin will radiate
> outwards from where you initially clicked, always going to the next
> closest city.
>
> I'll investigate more and also fix the problem on the packaging side of
> things.
>

The way the code works in geonames-lookup.ubuntu.com, after getting
the mouse cursor, we take the area around it (not sure how big), get
the list of cities sorted by population & take the top onces. Because
most likely you want a 20 M Bejing and not the 15k population location
next to it.

It's actually very each to test LiveCD, start live session add your
ppa, upgrade packages (even ubiquity itself) and run it for fun and
profit. Not need to rebuild the images ;-)

Regards,

Dmitrijs.