[Finished] Improvement suggestion for Weather Plugin (2 Viewers)

[kiwijunglist]

I tried freegeoip

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{"city": "", "region_code": "", "region_name": "", "metrocode": "", "zipcode": "", "longitude": "174", "latitude": "-41", "country_code": "NZ", "ip": "111.69.XXX.XXX", "country_name": "New Zealand"}

Country (New Zealand) is correct, but city (Christchurch) is blank, and longitude + lattitude is too far off to be useful (about 500km off, co-ordinates land me in the pacific ocean)

FreeGeoIP is now working correctly for me, they must of updated their data.

 

[chefkoch]

For me it still detects the different area/city in germany, which is not next to mine at all. So maybe we should start with have 3 to 4 big cities by default, if nothing was configured. We could use those 3 countries where we got the most user from.

 

[kiwijunglist]

I dislike this idea would rather it detected a city that was incorrect for <5% of users, and the user can manually correct the city in the GUI, rather than requiring 100% of users to choose from/alter a default set of cities.

 

[Valk]

Not sure how this would work around the world but I gave it a shot and it got close enough that you could pick the right city.

If you do a trace route and pick up the first hop where you can resolve the hostname (outside the LAN) it's more then likely a exchange in your local area. If you lookup that exchange with freegeoip.net it should get you close enough that you can pick the local major city accurately.

 

[mbuzina]

You might want to try the Windows 8 API if on Win 8:
http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/windowsapps/Geolocation-2483de66

 

[morpheus_xx]

Is someone there who wants to take over this part?

 

[Lehmden]

Hi.
This job really cries " @Micropolis ". He's the one and only weather expert here. But I don't know if he wants to work on MP2 at all...

 

[Spragleknas]

Great call! (Literally!).

Would be nice to see more devs turning their nose to MP2. Hopefully Micropolis can be persuaded to have a glimpse in to the future .

 

[Valk]

Well after I saw this thread was brought alive again I thought why not give my idea a try.

Attached is a quick tool I threw together to do a traceroute and hopefully find the exchange closest to you then it looks up that exchange with freegeoip and shows the result.

If it says "Failed" then something went wrong.

If people want to give it a shot and tell me how accurate it is. If it works for people I might take a closer look and implement it in MP2.

 

[commander197]

Hi,

following message I have got as result: City: , Country: Reserved.