Show HN: Coat, a simple weather forecast and clothing suggestion app

http://www.coatapp.com/

by sean_b • 16 years ago

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mrspeaker• 16 years ago

By a weird coincidence, I just fell over this site not 30 minutes ago... http://www.doineedajacket.com/

sean_b3• 16 years ago

Yup, I suspect that site is looking for local weather stations nearby and using the current conditions reported as a basis for a suggestion. That will be most accurate for current conditions.

With Coat I used projection data to give the whole day in a (hopefully) simple and concise single page.

singer2• 16 years ago

Who is the source of your weather data?

ljf• 16 years ago

Someone that doesn't cover london/uk :(

sean_b3• 16 years ago

Yup, sadly outside the United States, cost free weather data seems very rare. In my initial search I found many meteorology agencies (even those publicly funded) required payment or licensing for using the data.

For the UK, the service is Met Office and their licensing/pricing terms were enough to make me reconsider including that data in the first version.

sean_b3• 16 years ago

I use weather data from NOAA for this

Show HN: Coat, a simple weather forecast and clothing suggestion app

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