As far as I can tell though, it doesn't seem to account for humidity, pollution or wind patterns. The former is especially important for hot climates (or times of the year) since when it comes to comfort, hot dry >> hot humid.
Yeah it doesn't account for a lot of stuff. I'm in a Mediterranean climate here and it's suggesting a lot of places that are very far from that. If it's supposed to be used for plant growing related purposes it's not going to be very useful.
Nice idea. I like the clean interface and it's very responsive. Nice comparison feature as well. I think you need some kind of canonical name resolution though.
For example, searching for 'Moscow' returns nothing -- but it is found as 'Moskva'. Also, nothing is returned for 'Nairobi', but it's there as 'Jomo Kenyatta International' which is their airport. Not exactly obvious.
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.
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.
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.
Might it not be likely that an application dependent on weather data is actually limited to locations for which weather data is available, regardless of population?
What I really like about the search, is that it accounts for seasons on different hemispheres. E.g. it returns Lisboa and Cadiz as places similar to Sydney. Even though the months with hot weather are different in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres.
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.
Overall, this is pretty alright, though I'm looking at the climate results for Boston in the summertime right now, and as sweat pours down my face I really really wish that 25°C was the average temperature around here in June-July.
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 65.1 ms ] threadAs far as I can tell though, it doesn't seem to account for humidity, pollution or wind patterns. The former is especially important for hot climates (or times of the year) since when it comes to comfort, hot dry >> hot humid.
It doesn't have "Copenhagen", only "Koebenhavn" which nobody uses.
But then it also thinks the capital is "Tallin", rather than Tallinn.
And a 'minimum population' control.
For example, searching for 'Moscow' returns nothing -- but it is found as 'Moskva'. Also, nothing is returned for 'Nairobi', but it's there as 'Jomo Kenyatta International' which is their airport. Not exactly obvious.
Overall very nice work.
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Great product!
Bug: as soon as you enter mon ASCI Charaters in the search, it will return a blank page, tried: münchen (munich), 東京 (Tokyo).
At least tell me "City not found".
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.
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.
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. ;)
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.
What about a link to see cities that are the most opposite?