Should expose 'alternatenames' field of cities15000.txt

Bug #1524928 reported by Michael Terry
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Bug Description

Exposing 'alternatenames' would allow users to search over names for cities in their own language (something useful for ubiquity, system settings, and unity8's oobe wizard).

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

(Although it'd still be hard to know which name to actually display as the canonical name of the city -- ideally we'd show the matched name, but that could be hard. I wish cities15000.txt noted which language each alternate name is in.)

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Michael Terry (mterry) wrote :

Hrm... the alternateNames.txt file does note the language -- so we could do a nice get_name(string locale) API or similar. But it's 105 MB zipped, compared to the 9 MB zipped for cities15000.txt...

Michael Terry (mterry)
Changed in libtimezonemap (Ubuntu):
status: New → In Progress
Michael Terry (mterry)
Changed in libtimezonemap (Ubuntu):
assignee: Michael Terry (mterry) → nobody
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