Re: new developer's corner
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > Well, I have all the stuff, we just need to get a script that
> > re-generates the xearth file from the DB and another script to do a one
> > time import of the existing xearth file.
>
> Given how long it's been since thatxearth file was made, and how little data
> is in it anyway, I wonder if the second script is needed at all? (I for one
> have moved 3 times since I provided my coordinates.)
Then all that is needed really is to provide two fields for lat/long. What
I'd like to do is also permit a country code+address to generate a
lat/long if one is not explicitly given [probably from the info in
/usr/share/zoneinfo] that will get us lots more entries
Jason
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