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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 chockchocschoir »

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…

As someone who is considering my next place in the world to live for a 5-10 year period, it would be amazing if this website could support world data, not just the US. If needed, I'm ready to help fund the expansion to support more parts of the world :)

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Post by Johnny555 »

gotaquestion wrote: post #54
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…

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 think it would be very hard to compare the risk from living near a fault line to living in a tornado zone. Tornadoes come nearly every year and it's pretty easy to quantify your risk of being in the path of one (and it's generally easy to minimize the risk -- listen for Tornado warnings and move to a shelter (build one if you have to)).

But the risk from earthquakes is much harder to quantify since they are so rare, hard to predict except in broad generalities, and the damage suffered is also hard to predict. You can try to reduce your risk by following good earthquake practices, but it's hard to quantify the risk reduction.

In my area, the earthquake risk is: “We estimate the probability of having a magnitude 9 earthquake in the next 50 years is about 10 to 14 percent”, but no one can say exactly where the earthquake will strike or what areas will suffer the most damage.

Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by chockchocschoir »

alecbz wrote: post #124
smeej wrote: post #69

Reading the comments makes me wonder if I'm the only one who would even be interested in this, but I really like variety, so I'd love to be able to be able to layer semitranslucent layers on top of each other. It's probably way too much customization, but if I want somewhere that has at least 30 days that don't get over 30 degrees, as well as maybe 15 days above 90 degrees, I'd kind of have to have it open in two win…

Yeah, big +1 on seasons and variety. I grew up on the east coast so I guess I'm just kind acclimated to it, but I never got being so obsessed with the weather. Like when I go outside and it's freezing, am I like "yay"? No. But there is a coziness to the winter I appreciate, getting to go inside and warm up. And then warmer weather starts to come, and you feel relieved by it, you get to actually be like "yay, Spring i…

I guess people are different? I'm from a place where the difference between winter and summer is a lot, and as soon as I could moved to a place where the seasons are as even as possible. No need for change of clothing depending on the season and no risk of freezing in winter. Never been more happy, and the main reason for the move was indeed the weather.

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Post by alecbz »

chockchocschoir wrote: post #143
alecbz wrote: post #124

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Yeah, big +1 on seasons and variety. I grew up on the east coast so I guess I'm just kind acclimated to it, but I never got being so obsessed with the weather. Like when I go outside and it's freezing, am I like "yay"? No. But there is a coziness to the winter I appreciate, getting to go inside and warm up. And then warmer weather starts to come, and you feel relieved by it, you get to actually be like "yay, Spring i…

I guess people are different? I'm from a place where the difference between winter and summer is a lot, and as soon as I could moved to a place where the seasons are as even as possible. No need for change of clothing depending on the season and no risk of freezing in winter. Never been more happy, and the main reason for the move was indeed the weather.

Interesting, so this is something that you were like, actively conscious of as a source of unhappiness in your life? Like if someone had asked you, “what would you do to most improve your life?”, how high on the list would avoiding winter have been?

I live in New York, the delta is fairly significant, though I’m sure there’s worse places. I have heard of places in like e.g. remote Canada where it seems like life kinda just shuts down in the winter, I could definitely see that sucking.

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Post by Brajeshwar »

I believe you are going to add more. Here are a few things I learnt after listening to a wealthy person looking for a place in India to build massive research, retreat kinda home, for his family, and the people who pop in to live their work.

The temperature range is one of the many factors. Even in a hotter area (from statistics), you can create a pleasant environment around the year if you have enough space and strategically plant trees and other greens, without any artificial air conditioning.

Soil: Look for soil quality and their changes over time and thus the likelihood of future quality.

Water: This is one of the most important ones. I believe you want to live/retire in the outskirts, grow your food, etc. Water plays a crucial role in what you want to do and what life you will have.

Calamities: History of natural calamities.

The others will be crime rates, political unrests, and accessibility, depending on how far you want to stay away from the crowd.

Nonetheless, your app is super cool and has given me ideas. Start with all the software possible and commission a small research team to pinpoint a few locations and zero in your final choices. ;-)

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Post by heavyset_go »

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…

When you hover or click on a hexagon, it would be helpful to have the color it is highlighted in the legend.

Re: Goldilocks Zone Finder – Find your ideal climate

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Post by mannerheim »

daotoad wrote: post #118
loloquwowndueo wrote: post #101

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

Fortunately the insanity of "standard" units has everyone used to memorizing silly facts like boiling is 212 and there are 5280 feet in a mile. If you're used to that, it's easy to remember that C = (F-32) * 9 / 5.

What's so special about the boiling point of water?
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