Feature request: allow country search in clock-app

[Flohack74]

From @TartanSpartan on July 22, 2018 11:13

Description of the feature

Currently, when you tap "Add (+) City" you go to a list of cities (and the countries they are part of as tags) across the world. You can scroll down it or search by city. But it would be useful to search by country too. Perhaps you are interested in the time zone difference between say the UK and Madagascar. But you might not know any cities in Madagascar, so searching by city wouldn't help, but searching by country tag would be helpful. And this would be a handy thing to do without having to search in a browser or a map app for "which towns/cities are in country X"?

Copied from original issue: ubports/ubuntu-touch#783

[Flohack74]

From @dark-eye on July 22, 2018 13:10

@Flohack74 I think this should be moved to the clock-app repo/project

[Flohack74]

Yes I move it now...

[dark-eye]

Hmm it seems that the current API used by the clock is limited to city names only (http://geoname-lookup.ubuntu.com/?query=london) We will probably need to change the online geoname API to get this feature working...
Maybe http://www.geonames.org might work but I think we'll have to investigate if we can freely use it`s API...