Yes, this is a "geek tool"; it's used as part of the build process for the installer. At present there's nothing based on this that you can use in a normal system to select a keymap. About the best you can do is boot a current Ubuntu alternate install CD, run through the keyboard detection stage, and see what keymap it says you have.
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