i think i know why this happens. other geocoding services do have the Russian (or Bulgarian, etc.) names in their database in Cyrillic. Yahoo! does not and probably transcribes the Cyrillic letters to the Latin alphabet, results are rather mixed.moshi wrote: but the Yahoo! api returns Rostock instead of Stockholm, other apis like Yandex or Google work fine. somehow Yahoo! seems to shuffle the letters.
if you are still interested in this you might want to have a look at the OpenWeatherMap api, they recently added that: http://openweathermap.org/APIjsmorley wrote:Looks like the api doesn't support it, but what would be really cool would be to enter a Lat/Long and have it "find" the nearest valid weather location code. Sometimes the closest "town/city" seems like it should be correct, but many folks could get even more accurate weather results since there are actually defined locations Yahoo knows about that are not intuitive to the user. For instance, my mailing address is "Fairfax", but "Chantilly" works better for accurate weather.
Lat and Long most folks can get from their phones...
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select * from geo.concordance where namespace="woeid" and text in (select woeid from geo.places(0,1) where text="London")jsmorley wrote:Looks like the api doesn't support it, but what would be really cool would be to enter a Lat/Long and have it "find" the nearest valid weather location code. Sometimes the closest "town/city" seems like it should be correct, but many folks could get even more accurate weather results since there are actually defined locations Yahoo knows about that are not intuitive to the user. For instance, my mailing address is "Fairfax", but "Chantilly" works better for accurate weather.
Lat and Long most folks can get from their phones...
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select * from yahoo.maps.findLocation where q="38.8942786,-77.4310992" and gflags="R"Code: Select all
select * from weather.forecast where woeid in (select ResultSet.Results.woeid from yahoo.maps.findLocation where q="38.8942786,-77.4310992" and gflags="R") and u="f"Code: Select all
http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q=select%20*%20from%20weather.forecast%20where%20woeid%20in%20(select%20ResultSet.Results.woeid%20from%20yahoo.maps.findLocation%20where%20q%3D%2238.8942786%2C-77.4310992%22%20and%20gflags%3D%22R%22)%20and%20u%3D%22f%22&diagnostics=true&env=store%3A%2F%2Fdatatables.org%2Falltableswithkeys