ClimateFuture: a project that shows you the projected impacts of climate change where you live
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@briparks yeah, I definitely plan to add a celsius option soon - thanks for the feedback!
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@Kevin-Qi sorry if I missed it but is there a reason nothing is showing up under "Best case"? Aside from the symbolic message that there is no best case scenario anymore haha but I'm not sure that's what you're going for. Nice project, would love to see its evolution
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@jparadis haha, it's missing "best case" because the datasource driving most of the info is from the ACIS webservice, which doesn't have RCP 2.6 projections (which falls under "best case"). Depending on the info, some will have an RCP 2.6 projection, which is why I include 3 columns even if they don't have data for "best case". This is definitely not made clear enough though; I'll think of ways to message things better. Thanks for the feedback and encouragement!
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@Kevin-Qi This is a cool way to transparently surface climate data. It also does a good job highlighting how big changes will be relative to the norm. Any thoughts on opening it up as an external API for other services to consume in turn?
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@Eric-Vanular Absolutely - exposing an API is definitely a goal of mine! Data collection is the hardest part of this project, so being able to help other people get a hold of usable data more easily is something I'd be happy to support.
There's actually a public API right now that drives the site - it's just undocumented and subject to change: http://api.climatefuture.io/locations?address=san+francisco&year=2080
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@Kevin-Qi Cool stuff, I'm just checking it out now. How has your project progressed since you first posted about it?
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@Sam-Hughes unfortunately have been busy and haven't had the chance to work on it, but I'm hoping to once I have more time. If anyone's interested in helping out with data sources or with coding (react/nextjs/express/postgres/postgis), let me know!
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@Kevin-Qi Have you considered open sourcing the repository? Might draw more interest in getting help that way
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@olliej it's already open source!
- API server: https://github.com/kevinsqi/climatefuture
- Client (react, nextjs): https://github.com/kevinsqi/climatefuture-client
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@Kevin-Qi awesome! thanks for linking it
