smayr

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by smayr 6y ago
This is sourced from Lonelyplanet and to my judgment this means tap water is drinkable in larger towns, while it's not in smaller towns in general. This is not the same across the world, in countries like Switzerland, for example, you
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by smayr 6y ago
I saw it now, it's an issue with the GeoJSON, I'll fix that soon!
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by smayr 6y ago
Good point, thanks, I missed that! TBH I need to brush up on GDPR law. FYI The website itself is not using any cookies, but GA and the Crisp chat are using them.
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by smayr 6y ago
Do you mean because of the contradictory data sources? (WHO saying mostly safe, CDC no, Numbeo 50%)?
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by smayr 6y ago
That's indeed interesting! Chlorine in the tap water seems to be one of the major factors why people buy bottled water, even though otherwise it might be perfectly healthy.
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by smayr 6y ago
I was so close to doing that before finding the correct term :D
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by smayr 6y ago
Hey, can you tell me why? Don't know specifics about Fiji.
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by smayr 6y ago
That's a very interesting fact, thanks for that!
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by smayr 6y ago
Hey, glad you like it! Yes I am using Awesomplete with some custom CSS and loading the autocomplete results on page load (I figured that's more performant in my case than loading it on each keystroke).
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by smayr 6y ago
That's interesting, I'll look into that! Sparkling water might be indeed a reason why people buy bottled water, although there are household solutions for that as well.
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by smayr 6y ago
You are right, I should have specified that tap water quality doesn't include the taste of it. Apart from that Belgium tap water is perfectly safe to drink! I don't know specifics about the tap water in Belgium but something as si
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by smayr 6y ago
Indeed, just looking at the data on a country-level misses a lot! I am working on providing city-level data, which by the way is substantially harder as the data for most places is hidden deep on some government websites as a PDF, sometimes
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by smayr 6y ago
You are right, that's one thing I missed. Water bottle prices are determined on a country-level (I assume average bottle prices are higher in Moscow, I should show them ideally on a city-level) and I'm assuming people are buying 1
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by smayr 6y ago
Yes Leaflet in combination with a CartoCDN basemap
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by smayr 6y ago
Which country exactly would be disrespected in this case? :D On a serious note, Italy indeed has some tap water problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_supply_and_sanitation_in... , although common sense and the i
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by smayr 6y ago
For the map itself, Numbeo is not the primary source, that would be the WHO data, which is weighted 3 times more than the data coming from Numbeo to put an emphasis on a more reliable data source. The cost-saving from not drinking bottled w
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by smayr 6y ago
Thanks for your thoughts! I'll try and make it easier to "explore the world" as you said, definitely going to remove the "zoom in". I initially tried to keep the data shown on the map compact to keep the page load t
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by smayr 6y ago
Thanks for those links! It seems https://www.data.gov/ is a great source for US tap water data used by both websites!
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by smayr 6y ago
That's a good point, I think it very much depends on the area you are in, that's why I added sub-pages for each country, e.g. https://www.iswatersafetodrink.in/germany/Munich . Although to be fair they are sti
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by smayr 6y ago
Hi HN! I made this while I was lockdown-bored. The data sources are linked on the website. I plan to add scientific reports on water-levels soon on a city-level. I want to raise awareness on how saving money and the environment often comes
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Show HN: An interactive map of countries by tap water quality(iswatersafetodrink.in)
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