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As a side note - clicking the name of a place shows an overlay in the graph. It was not obvious at first; the names are in black.
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.
Maybe. ;)
Results found for: amsterdam * No results found. Great product!
What about a link to see cities that are the most opposite?
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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.
You missed my point maybe - the fact that your hometown is bigger and not listed is exactly the problem. There are a number of small cities listed that do not have airports also. The key is that a listed city either lists as 'airport' (population 0), or is a very small city (low population). So my point is that the filtering is probably backwards, and it's filtering out big cities instead of filtering out small ones.…