Setting your location on the new Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Homepage
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| 18:26 UK time, Friday, 21 May 2010
If you are interested in the technical detail around setting your location on the new Â鶹¹ÙÍøÊ×Ò³Èë¿Ú Homepage, head for Web Developer blog. Neil Crosby's post has everything you need to know:
After a bit of head scratching, I did the obvious thing: I took the best bits of each data set and used them to generate a cohesive whole. Now, whenever a user tries to set their location we send queries to both Postcoder and to the Weather search API. We then throw away anything the Weather Search API tells us about the UK, and just use its worldwide data along with all the data that we previously had for the UK from Postcoder.
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