[Bug 1246903] Review Request: gnome-shell-extension-openweather - an extension to display weather information from many locations in the world

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1246903



--- Comment #3 from Jens Lody <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxx> ---
(In reply to Richard Shaw from comment #2)
> Is the main difference between your fork and Neroth's extension where it
> gets the weather data from?
> 
> I know his had to go into RPM Fusion as it wasn't acceptable in Fedora and I
> can't quite remember if that was the reason or not.

I don't know why it was not acceptable, probably because he used yahoo.
I forked the extension, after he switched to gnome-weather, which was useless
for people not living in major cities (and even then the location was often nit
found).

So I reverted these changes and switched to openweathermap.org and used their
site also to search the location.

In the meantime I also added forecast.io as weather provider and switched
location-search to openstreetmaps.org (nomination), which works much better.

I personally like my extension more, because it has a slightly different layout
(more clear in my opinion, but that's a matter of taste) and more configuration
options.

User can freely chose between both weather-providers as default provider and
chose which one to use for single locations (instead of default), if one of the
(at the moment two) providers is known to have better results/forecasts for a
location.

One problem might be, that forecast.io forces the use of an api-key. The
api-key is free for up to thousand requests per day, but nevertheless a user
will not get data without it. Openweathermap.org works without an api-key, but
the prefer users to use one.

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