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Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by LeifCarrotson »

nemo1618 wrote: post #57
gotaquestion wrote: post #54

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Great job! Very responsive. I thought about making something like this too, years ago. I wanted to converge data from tornados, fault lines, flooding, and hurricaine probabilities. But then I got sucked into EVERY parameter I might want to consider, like air traffic (vortac lines), distance to power grid, UPS coverage, internet coverage, cellular coverage... and eventually the amount of data crushed my brain and the…

I honestly have no idea how the heck grid works haha. Maybe someone else can chime in. The MVP site took >1 second to rerender when you dragged the slider. I got it down to a few dozen ms, which makes it a lot more fun to use. Pretty proud of that :)

The responsive, low-latency controls are definitely a pleasure!

Thank you for not making it a typical CRUD app that queries an overloaded 35MB database for a couple round trips every time you want to move a slider....

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Post by bee_rider »

spuz wrote: post #55
nemo1618 wrote: post #53

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You are very tolerant, haha. I can't stand anything over 80F or so. btw, you can also view individual months if you only care about a particular season.

I think I just don't understand what to input to give the answer I want. I entered the typical minimum and maximum temperatures that I experience where I live now which is London, UK. Given that, I wouldn't expect the tool to tell me that the entire US has the same climate as London. I think it's because I'm used to a place where the extremes only last for a few days in each year and the rest of the time the temperat…

You could probably pick a summer month in the month drop-down, at least for a pretty good approximation of 'areas that never go over X temperature,' since purple indicates 25-31 days inside your range.

This told me that I should live in Alaska, or on Mt. Washington. Unfortunately my ancestors came from your cloudy islands and we never adapted to all this horrible sunlight I guess.

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Post by birdman3131 »

antupis wrote: post #59
brimble wrote: post #13

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Yeah this paints most of the Southwest as having a worse climate than where I live, which... yeah, for anyone who hates humidity (which is most people, I think?), that's not remotely true. I'd take 95F and bone dry over 82F and soaking-wet air, any day. Happily.

Same with cold I would take dry non windy -10F over humid windy 30F any day.

Moved from Colorado (down to -40 in the winter) to east Texas as a kid. Went outside and was told it was mid 30F's. Did not believe they because it felt way colder.

These days I am used to it and wear short sleeves down to about 0 to -10F and watch the minds of everyone go WTF is he on. Had I don't know how many people try to donate me jackets while out walking. (Western AR now but it is the same as east Texas for climate.)

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Post by alhirzel »

nemo1618 wrote: post #46

Hi all! Some background on the project: I want to build a house someday, and the first step is deciding where to build. I knew an interactive map like this would be useful, but after fiddling with leaflet.js for a while and googling for climate data, I felt a bit lost. So I decided to try something new: I hired a contractor on Upwork who had experience with map visualizations. They built an MVP within a few weeks, an…

You have a great idea, hiring out someone on Upwork for an MVP that you could then run with or not. Wondering, what was the cost?

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Post by romanhn »

kevinsundar wrote: post #52

And this my friends is why I live in San Diego! I really do think tech will take off in this area soon. Its (relatively for CA) on the cheaper side for housing and great for remote work.

While still somewhat cheaper than prime Bay Area real estate in absolute sense, the price edge in San Diego and North County has rapidly diminished in the last couple of years. Bidding is extremely aggressive and many homes in the more desirable areas go pending within a few days, frequently with many offers multiple $100k's above asking price. Saw one go $1M above asking recently. It's pretty bonkers.

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Post by pengaru »

nemo1618 wrote: post #46

Hi all! Some background on the project: I want to build a house someday, and the first step is deciding where to build. I knew an interactive map like this would be useful, but after fiddling with leaflet.js for a while and googling for climate data, I felt a bit lost. So I decided to try something new: I hired a contractor on Upwork who had experience with map visualizations. They built an MVP within a few weeks, an…

Neat project! Would be nice if it integrated data like wildfires, mudslides, floods, storms/winds, crime, mosquito populations, to be a truly useful aid in home site locating.

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Post by Xcelerate »

dehrmann wrote: post #22
com2kid wrote: post #15

And this is why SF is so popular. It is a shame Florida never developed a huge tech hub, but Miami has plenty of other stuff going for it. (besides hurricanes) People don't get it, SF will be always popular because the climate is just that good. Seattle is a close #2 IMHO, but you have to be able to put up with 8 months of grey, which is a huge "but".

Redwood City: Climate Best by Government Test

I lived in Redwood City for a few years. It was fantastic. We moved there from Tennessee, and after the first week we were like “wow, it has been clear blue skies every day this week!” After another four months with barely a cloud in the sky, it dawned on us that the climate really was quite incredible (although there are two seasons, “green” and “brown”, and the months are swapped from what they are in the southeast).

30 miles north in San Francisco it’s quite a bit cooler and less sunny though. I would drive into the fog every Saturday morning to visit the farmers market.

We’re back in Tennessee now and I forgot how bad my seasonal affective disorder gets. Apparently I crave sunshine.

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Post by oh_sigh »

nemo1618 wrote: post #46

Hi all! Some background on the project: I want to build a house someday, and the first step is deciding where to build. I knew an interactive map like this would be useful, but after fiddling with leaflet.js for a while and googling for climate data, I felt a bit lost. So I decided to try something new: I hired a contractor on Upwork who had experience with map visualizations. They built an MVP within a few weeks, an…

Well...did it work for you? Did you find some spot where you're going to build a house?
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