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benjymous / MWM-for-Android

Meta Watch Manager Android SDK project for watch wrangling, remote protocol handling and notification routing for the Meta Watch wearable development systems. Includes an Intents based API for quick experiments.
www.metawatch.org
Apache License 2.0
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Wunderground location name oddness #45

Open benjymous opened 12 years ago

benjymous commented 12 years ago

Sometimes the Wunderground location name can be somewhat inaccurate - It would be worth investigating if there's a different key in the json data that would be better to use

currently using "location.city", but there are also "display_location.city" and "current_observation.city" keys that might give a better fix

dedee commented 12 years ago

Should be fixed with https://github.com/benjymous/MWM-for-Android/commit/3da73b253ad004939179add1c1d47a36d5985b5c

sdemills commented 12 years ago

There could be other reasons for this perhaps. I have a sophisticated weather station and I provide a feed every 10 mins to Wunderground. Some weather stations provide a continuous live feed to Wunderground. If you ask for the weather in Ruddington, where I live, then if my data is fresher than the data from the live feed station then Wunderground users will see my data and the location will say Ruddington, if not then users will see the other station and the location will be Beeston.

Because of my interest in the weather, I use the weather app in MWM with Wunderground and I have been satisfied with what is displayed as the city though that may be because I'm aware of how the data is assembled and so would tolerate seeing a name that sometimes is not my precise location?