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BrookeDot / SimplerWeather

jQuery Weather Plugin using Dark Sky –– Fork of simpleWeather
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Zip code to Lat/Long #1

Open k-brain opened 5 years ago

k-brain commented 5 years ago

Any ideas on how to implement a way to convert a zip code to the lat/long that DarkSky likes in the script? Was using Yahoo, then with help moved over to Wunderground using SimpleWeather and now that API is gone end of the year.

BrookeDot commented 5 years ago

HI @kevandju,

You may need to add a secondary API call to get the lat/lon based on the zip. Google, Bing, and several other APIs are available however they do require a second API key and agreement with the provider. If you do a search for "Zip to latitude and longitude API" you'll be able to find an API that will work for you.

Then you can pass that into value into a function like the loadWeather() example: https://github.com/BrookeDot/SimplerWeather/blob/master/geolocation-example.js#L38