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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 loloquwowndueo »

nemo1618 wrote: post #29
rosetremiere wrote: post #27

I must say, it's frustrating clicking this link and landing on a page narrowed to the USA, and, to top it off, in Fahrenheit… Maybe a title change would be welcome.

Sorry! I'd love to extend this to other countries, but I wasn't sure where to get the data.

Temp in Celsius doesn’t need getting any extra data :)

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Post by paxys »

One thing that isn't very intuitive – on a map dealing with temperature you'd immediately expect a range of red to blue colors to represent hotter/colder regions. In this case, maybe a different color scheme would help in representing # days more clearly.

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Post by jkelleyrtp »

nemo1618 wrote: post #82
oh_sigh wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Ha, no, not yet. Looking more closely at NC though. I want to have a nice mountain view, so maybe I need to incorporate topological data too somehow.

NC is a very temperate and beautiful place. Good prices and jobs too. If you live in the middle, both the ocean and mountains are 3 hours away.

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Post by ianbicking »

Floegipoky wrote: post #89

Haven't seen USDA plant hardiness zones mentioned. Definitely less detailed but still very useful: https://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/pages/view-maps

Plant zones seem very primitive to me, AFAICT based only on the maximum sustained cold. So for instance Duluth has a relatively higher hardiness zone rating than some areas around it, despite having a very narrow growing period, simply because in the depth of winter it doesn't get QUITE as cold due to Lake Superior. But most of the year it's quite a bit colder places around it due to that same lake!

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Post by pharmakom »

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…

Please add a Celsius / Fahrenheit toggle :)

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Post by ledauphin »

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…

this is cool - i've spent way too much time just sort of synthesizing this sort of data in my brain with no hard evidence.

One knob I'd love to have is the ability to tune the # of days ranges - "above 200" is a pretty large bucket depending on how you tune the other numbers. It looks this is changeable in the code, but maybe it's tied tightly to the available data?

Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by chestnuttrees »

roter wrote: post #8
electroly wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The fact that it only shows America is, perhaps, the most obvious tell ;)

Except for the isolated hex in Ontario, Canada. Note that this was probably built from the USCRN network [0] which has a research station in Egbert [1]. [0] https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/crn/ [1] https://www.atdd.noaa.gov/u-s-crn-groups-map/

Dang. This is why it’s fun to read HN. Thanks!
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