I'm glad to see someone trying this. I very (very) casually explored this same idea recently by just browsing the search features of Instagram and Flickr. The

I'm glad to see someone trying this. I very (very) casually explored this same idea recently by just browsing the search features of Instagram and Flickr. The results weren't very promising so I concluded it probably wasn't worth investing further effort in the API. Looking at the Huntington Beach results for this morning on the swellphone website, I don't see a lot that would interest surfers: http://swellphone.com/spot/surf-spot/usa/california/huntington-beach http://swellphone.com/spot/surf-spot/usa/california/huntingt... And I would expect that to be one of the more popular spots. When I was in school at UCSD years ago, I found scraping NOAA buoy data and loosely correlating it with personal experience was a good enough predictor as to whether it was worth the walk down to Blacks. But this is what surfline.com does at scale. Incidentally, anyone know what happened to the site surfshot.com? I believe their model was just to send a couple photographers down the San Diego coast each morning and post pictures. Site has been around for years and worked well enough, I thought, but it hasn't updated since July.