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Find Cities with Similar Climates

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Re: Find Cities with Similar Climates

#21

I tried searching for my city (Tromsø), and got an absolutely blank page back. At least tell me "City not found".

It looks like it works if you write it 'Tromso'. But you have to write Copenhagen as 'Koebenhavn', so it seems inconsistent in handling the ø.

Re: Find Cities with Similar Climates

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post #4

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.

When I type "København" it responds with an empty page. It seems like any non-ascii character makes the page crash.

It doesn't have "Copenhagen", only "Koebenhavn" which nobody uses.

Re: Find Cities with Similar Climates

#25
Nice hack. The visualization is well done.

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.

Re: Find Cities with Similar Climates

#27
Do 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 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.

Re: Find Cities with Similar Climates

#28
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No results for Manila, Kuala Lumpur, or Singapore either

No results for Prague and Dublin. For Vienna, if found Vienna, VA, USA, not Vienna, Austria.

Try the local names. Praha, Wien, and some unknown mystical name the Dubliners use.

Re: Find Cities with Similar Climates

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post #27

Do 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…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service

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.

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