City list in Anaconda and gnome-maps

[Donald Buchan]

Bug filed:

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89838

On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 07:39 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> Then it's likely that the data is incorrect in Mozilla's servers. Please file a bug against geoclue at bugzilla.freedesktop.org so we can assert that (and so that geoclue ships with some debugging tools).
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > On Tue, 2015-03-31 at 06:38 -0400, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > 
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > > On 31 March 2015 at 05:24, Donald Buchan <malak at pobox.com> wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > > <snip>
> > > > >
> > > > > After install gnome-maps today, I opened it and it immediately
> > > > > displayed
> > > > > a map of New York City, presumably since gnome-maps looked up my city
> > > > > location, which I entered in Anaconda, found New York, and displayed a
> > > > > pin over New York City.
> > > > >
> > > > > The first time I opened GNOME Maps (i.e. right now) I too saw New York
> > > > City, and I'm in Plymouth, UK (about 5337km away). My system is
> > > > configured
> > > > to use Europe/London at the time zone. Could your home city selection be
> > > > a
> > > > red herring with regard to GNOME Maps?
> > > 
> > > He's most likely behind a VPN or corporate network that shows its head in
> > > New York,
> > > or Mozilla's location services contain inaccurate data about his IP
> > > address.
> > > 
> > 
> > My computer is hooked up to a router which is hooked up to a modem
> > getting its signal from the phone company, Bell Canada
> > ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell_Canada )  No VPN, no corporate
> > network.
> > 
> > 
>