geocode-glib: Geocoding, reverse geocoding library

[Bastien Nocera]

On Sun, 2011-04-24 at 10:56 +0200, Guilhem Bonnefille wrote:
> 2011/4/21 Bastien Nocera <hadess at hadess.net>:
> > The current code uses json-glib, libsoup, and gvfs (for HTTP), though I
> > can remove the gvfs requirement if MeeGo/KDE people are interested in
> > the code.
> >
> > There's async and sync APIs, and I will be adding code to support
> > Telepathy's own attributes (which don't quite match the Place Finder API
> > attributes).
> >
> > Code:
> > http://git.gnome.org/browse/geocode-glib
> >
> > Opinions, comments? Is somebody interested in working on a Nominatim
> > backend? (does anybody know how well it works?)
> 
> As I peviously said on this ML, geocoding can certainly be done
> locally, with OpenStreetMap data. So, a D-Bus service for that have
> sense, hiding at least two sort of implementation behind a single
> interface:
> - web based
> - file based.
> 
> Nevertheless, I don't know if your geocode-glib should hide both
> implementation or should just be a piece of code to build the web
> based solution.

The current solution is a single implementation. There's nothing
stopping us from replacing the internal implementation (with a local
OpenStreet map database), using the same API.