API key for geonames.org

https://portal.admin.canonical.com/72263 is the RT created for this.

Can we migrate from geonames.org to the canonical run geonames lookup service at http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/ and or http://geoip.ubuntu.com/lookup

http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=%s&release=%s

http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=Farnborough&release=utopic

I think not, since the outout of http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=Farnborough&release=utopic seems quite sparse.

Compared to http://api.geonames.org/searchJSON?style=full&username=uweatherdev&name_startsWith=Farnbor&maxRows=25&featureClass=P for example. We need further infos about counties, timezone etc pp.

Comparing both result sets, following fields in geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com are missing:

- admin2
- admin3
- countryCode
- timezone (very important, also for clock app!)

Additional to the data fields mentioned above, the possibillity to search names by their start-chars is needed for the predictive search (see name_startsWith query param for geonames.org.)

A JSON response type for http://geoip.ubuntu.com/lookup would also be handy!

For the clock app, we make use of,

- timezoneID
- city
- country
- admin2
- admin3

We used to need lat and long before for the old clock app, but for the new clock that is no longer necessary.

It doesn't make sense to switch the old clock app to http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/ since we are going to anyway replace it with the new clock app. Ideally I would do it but it is not as simple as just changing the url in the old clock app. Hence marking it as Won't Fix.

Filed a new RT to update the geonames with the linked branch. https://portal.admin.canonical.com/74203 (you may not be able to access this, sorry).

I can't figure out how to get the admin3 data right now, but will investigate that further.

The above RT has been completed, the http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/ service now provides timezone, admin1 and admin2.

e.g. http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=Farnborough

Fix committed into lp:ubuntu-clock-app/reboot at revision 57, scheduled for release in ubuntu-clock-app, milestone rtm

Was this ever fixed in the Weather app? If it wasn't, I think we should before we hit the market and start hitting API request limits.

Martin, can we switch from geonames.org to the ubuntu geoname-lookup now? Is this just waiting on a geoname-lookup deployment?

The cpp extension for the timezones.