Clean up zipcode / weather file / climate zone code

lirainer commented 8 months ago

There is a lot of old code related to zip code look up and weather file reading. Needs to be cleaned up and documented.

climate_zone.py=>retrieve_climate_zone() - not used as far as I can tell
/resources/zipcode_usaf_station.json - not used as far as I can tell
importers.py=>get_single_thermostat() lines 332-346 - this is where the weather file is currently set. It uses a dict in zipcode_lookup.py, which appears to have been generated using zipcodes version 1.1.3 and eeweather version 0.3.24. It is unclear how often this file should be regenerated and what code is used to do that.

john-zither commented 8 months ago

Ill look into this and work to update them! Thanks for sharing!

lirainer commented 8 months ago

The zipcode_lookup.py is generated by build_zipcode_lookup.py and should be regenerated whenever the random seeds are updated.

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