We requested an APIKey for Banshee and we have found out that there is no "city provider" mode. We just get coordinates. I keep thinking that the previous intended Gnome services was ideal, not this. (Gnome apps depending on a Mozilla service just seems wrong, especially when all of them are switching to WebKit and whatnot.)
On 26 June 2014 02:31, Zeeshan Ali via RT <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 1:17 AM, Andrés G. Aragoneses <[email protected]> > wrote: > > That seems too broad. This ticket was about the HTTP REST server. > > > > I guess you meant to direct me to > > > https://mozilla-ichnaea.readthedocs.org/en/latest/api/index.html#service-api > > > > And that, sadly, requires an API-KEY which we need to request for each > app. > > Why is this? (Fedora service doesn't require this, and the GeoClue > service > > that Andrea would have set up wouldn't either) > > The Mozilla service is a lot broader than just geoip and the server > load is way lot higher than it even will be on Fedora's geoip server. > > >Normally this is done in > > order to avoid high usage of the service (which would be a shame because > it > > could lead to a "death because of success" scenario). > > Its to avoid people spamming the service to cause DoS. It has happened > already. You can talk to Mozilla devs about this if you like. > > > At this point, for a Gnome app, it's may be better to remain using the > > Fedora service instead of Mozilla's. > > A bit too late. Please keep yourself informed about latest geolocation > developments if you want to have an effect on its direction. I've been > blogging about all this and its been on planet.gnome: > > http://zee-nix.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/geolocation (skip the latest > one). > > -- > Regards, > > Zeeshan Ali (Khattak) > ________________________________________ > Befriend GNOME: http://www.gnome.org/friends/ > > > ---------------------------------------------------- > This message was sent via GNOME.org Request Tracker. >
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