----- Original Message ----- > Since the subject of gnome-maps is current right now ... > > When I installed Fedora 21, I was mildly piqued that I couldn't choose > Montreal, home for me. > > According to the online Fedora Documentation, section 5.4.3 (1), "The > list of cities and regions comes from the Time Zone Database (tzdata) > public domain, which is maintained by the Internet Assigned Numbers > Authority (IANA). The Fedora Project can not add cities or regions into > this database." > > Ok, grumble grumble, I used to be able to choose Montreal in Anaconda. > I chose New York, about 595km away; I could have chosen Toronto at about > 542km away. > > After install gnome-maps today, I opened it and it immediately displayed > a map of New York City, presumably since gnome-maps looked up my city > location, which I entered in Anaconda, You don't enter your city in Anaconda, it's the timezone. > found New York, and displayed a > pin over New York City. And gnome-maps doesn't read it, it uses geoip to the Mozilla servers: https://location.services.mozilla.com/ I'm pretty sure that the timezone is used as a fallback. > I assume that /usr/share/zoneinfo/ is populated from the Time Zone > Database; the files for the various regions are a little bit text and > apparently a good amount of binary. Is there a way for the common user > to populate this directory with custom entries? Grab the tzdata source, and have fun. But, FWIW, this is useless work. Copying America/NewYork to America/Montreal will have a similar effect (adds an entry which won't be accepted upstream). > More generally, is there a way to specify a closer city in the settings > so that a user gets a ballpark useful starting location if their > hometown or metropolitan area isn't in the list mentioned above? Anaconda could use libgweather which contains this information, but it does not. -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
