Hey y’all,
I’m curious about how people feel in regards to the stock weather app’s city coverage.
There’s this issue for it - Document when and why some cities are [not] available in GNOME Weather (#88) · Issues · GNOME / Weather · GitLab
which takes me to Projects/LibGWeather - GNOME Wiki!
which leads to Projects/LibGWeather/ImprovingLocations - GNOME Wiki!
that has “We usually prefer to only list cities with at least 100 thousand inhabitants[…]” in it.
Taking city data from Downloadable Geographic Databases | Simplemaps.com, I did some calculations:
| population | no of cities | percentage |
|---|---|---|
| <100000 | 37236 | 88.28% |
| >=100000 | 4945 | 11.72% |
| total | 42181 |
So, assuming libgweather has all cities with more than 100 thousand inhabitants in it, it would actually be usable to people wanting weather info for ~12% of total cities in the world. Not so nice.
Me personally, I cannot use the app, because my town isn’t returned in the search results.
Then there’s this issue - Idea: Provide some weather providers like google weather, so user can choose which one to use (#104) · Issues · GNOME / Weather · GitLab
which makes sense to me.
Taken together with the recent Apple announcement with its weather service, available via API as well for, frankly, any device or OS, I think this might work for the GNOME app, wouldn’t it?