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Do a search for 'South Africa' - the cities it returns are all small cities which are just big enough to have airports. In the cases of places like new york, on
by RyanZAG 13y ago
Do a search for 'South Africa' - the cities it returns are all small cities which are just big enough to have airports. In the cases of places like new york, only the airport is returned.
I'm just guessing here, but possibly this is a database of geographical locations with a population figure attached. The author has probably swapped 'only show cities with greater than X population' with 'only show cities with less than X population'. Airports would have very low population, and that's why there are so many airports. It also doesn't handle non-ASCII characters.
It's a guess, anyway.
- beachstartup 13y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Weather_Service in the US the NWS / NOAA operates weather stations at airports, wouldn't be surprised if other countries have similar programs. my hometown has a much larger population than the next one over, but the next one over is listed because there's an airport there.
- RyanZAG 13y agoYou missed my point maybe - the fact that your hometown is bigger and not listed is exactly the problem. There are a number of small cities listed that do not have airports also. The key is that a listed city either lists as 'airport' (population 0), or is a very small city (low population). So my point is that the filtering is probably backwards, and it's filtering out big cities instead of filtering out small ones. Maybe. ;)
- jasondenizac 13y agoMight it not be likely that an application dependent on weather data is actually limited to locations for which weather data is available, regardless of population?