Re:Ask HN: Please give feedback on simple weather site: weat...
by JeremyChase on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @12:56PM
(#617121)
I'm using the free maxmind database that is updated monthly, so it isn't a huge surprise that it got out of date.
You are right; you should be able to set your location.
The 'updated 1 minute ago' thing is also a problem because you can't do any caching of data that renders a date like that. I have thought about changing this for that reason, but yours is a good point.
Re:Ask HN: Please give feedback on simple weather site: weat...
by dce on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @03:42PM
(#617469)
You could try something like this: http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1557-javascript-makes-rel...
Re:Ask HN: Please give feedback on simple weather site: weat...
by JeremyChase on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @04:23PM
(#617542)
That is great, thanks!
Re:Ask HN: Please give feedback on simple weather site: weat...
by JeremyChase on Tuesday May 19, 2009 @06:08PM
(#617719)
I just added the code that will 'set' your location, so if you set it, the next time you visit you'll go to that location.
Neat, though. I like it well enough.
Comments:
* It incorrectly thought I was 1200 miles away from where I am. Probably due to another ISP recently acquiring my local ISP and GeoIP databases getting confused now. It doesn't seem like anything I do can trump the GeoIP when I visit the site-- it always sends me back to the wrong state.
* I like the look and the local comments, I suppose. Those might be more interesting to those people in big cities.
* I don't like the "updated 1 minute ago" in this case. I plan to leave the window up for a few days on one of my other machines and that won't tell me jack when I want to refresh it unless it's counting down or if it has the actual date.
* Would be nice if it auto-refreshed every 10-15 minutes or something.
Looks nice enough.