WoeId stands for Where on Earth Id. It's used to lookup a location's weather forecast. Not only MetaWeather uses it, but YahooWeather too.
In searching online couldn't find a free location search <=> woeid api end point, hence ought to invest in creating our own local database that's queryable to allow for realtime search when adding a new city to be added as a favorite for users.
Action Items:
- Look for an existing db that has city name, state, and country as searchable params & returns its woeId. If found, convert to a digestible db form for ObjectBox.
- If no db is found, then write a crawler to search wikipedia or an existing site that lists all woeid locations and create an ObjectBox db out of it.
WoeId stands for Where on Earth Id. It's used to lookup a location's weather forecast. Not only MetaWeather uses it, but YahooWeather too.
In searching online couldn't find a free location search <=> woeid api end point, hence ought to invest in creating our own local database that's queryable to allow for realtime search when adding a new city to be added as a favorite for users.
Action Items: