Rio de Janeiro

As those of you who live there and have tried to map yourself on IAM, my location database always chooses the northern-most city of a given name due to the sort routine stacking them my co-ordinates. There are three cities called Rio de Janeiro in Brazil; only one has real meaning to most people, but all three are valid.

As such, the new mapping engine now is able to recognize multiple cities, and I've built in some quick functions to accomplish that. On the map below you can see an example for Rio (it's also rendered in an experimental dusk mode which I probably won't implement; basically it shows where on the earth is light/dark dependant on the time of day):

Anyway, that's not in place yet, but it will be soon, as will the email update integration — those are my two short-list projects right now. My apologies for not having the email tie-in complete already. I'd put in more hours if I could, but then I'd be dead.

Wow Shannon, that's really annoying! What is it, 1997 on Geocities? Retroweb is NOT cool!

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