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I tried searching for my city (Tromsø), and got an absolutely blank page back. At least tell me "City not found".
I tried to search for my city and got back: EAST LONDON, SOUTH AFRICA LONDON AIRPORT, CANADA I would have thought London (UK) might have got a mention.
It doesn't have "Copenhagen", only "Koebenhavn" which nobody uses.
Feature idea: It would be cool if you could sketch the min/max temperatures and rainfall you'd like for your ideal city, and it would tell you what's close to that.
This city search is the worst one I've ever used. Devs, please test your sites, even the toy projects.
I'm just guessing here, but possibly this is a database of geographical locations with a population figure attached. The author has probably swapped 'only show cities with greater than X population' with 'only show cities with less than X population'. Airports would have very low population, and that's why there are so many airports. It also doesn't handle non-ASCII characters.
It's a guess, anyway.
Results found for: london
EAST LONDON, SOUTH AFRICA
LONDON AIRPORT, CANADADo a search for 'South Africa' - the cities it returns are all small cities which are just big enough to have airports. In the cases of places like new york, only the airport is returned. I'm just guessing here, but possibly this is a database of geographical locations with a population figure attached. The author has probably swapped 'only show cities with greater than X population' with 'only show cities with less…
in the US the NWS / NOAA operates weather stations at airports, wouldn't be surprised if other countries have similar programs.
my hometown has a much larger population than the next one over, but the next one over is listed because there's an airport there.