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Re: Twitter/Weather Mashup I put together over a few nights.

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Post by aviel » Sun, Dec 21, 2008, 11:21 PM UTC

iamwil wrote: post #20

How did you decide which twits to pick up? Did you just have a list of keywords that were weather related that you picked up? Or did you use some other method?

There is a whole ton of logic in there uses the current forecast, weather alerts, etc then determines based on keywords it finds what terms users might be talking about.

Unforunately weatherbug is struggling right now so it's not working as good as it should be. I'm switching to weather underground as we speak.

Re: Twitter/Weather Mashup I put together over a few nights.

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Post by aviel » Sun, Dec 21, 2008, 11:50 PM UTC

alexkay wrote: post #10

I'm in Sydney, asking for weather in Sydney, I don't want to see temperature Fahrenheits. Other than that, a very nice idea and execution.

Unfortunately, due to the unreliability of the weather bug api, i've had to switch to the weather underground api which makes this much more difficult. Currently working on this.

Re: Twitter/Weather Mashup I put together over a few nights.

#23

Post by alexkay » Tue, Dec 23, 2008, 4:40 AM UTC

aviel wrote: post #22

alexkay wrote: post #10

I'm in Sydney, asking for weather in Sydney, I don't want to see temperature Fahrenheits. Other than that, a very nice idea and execution.

Unfortunately, due to the unreliability of the weather bug api, i've had to switch to the weather underground api which makes this much more difficult. Currently working on this.

Well I guess it can be done easier. Currently, the only countries not using Celsius are United States and Belize. And you are already using GeoIP.