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by eddyg

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I'd like something like this for week-long+ road trips.
The day before we leave on a trip, I manually use 10-day forecasts from something like weather.com to help figure out what to pack and see if it's worth making scheduling adjustment. I'd like to know what the forecasted weather will be in each of the planned stops. High/low temperature and weather for each stop (we might be at a stop for many hours, so the weather can change), plus forecasts for any "overnight" cities, so we know what to expect while at the hotel/campground/etc.: at arrival time, the overnight conditions, and in the morning at expected departure time.
I'm more concerned about weather during planned stops than "weather on the way".
Something that integrates with https://furkot.com (the best road-trip planning tool ever!) would be great!

by dominka

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Nice idea - I tested it on a route in Poland and it picked a pretty optimal path
One thing that felt a bit tricky: if I want to leave "now" and quickly try different route variations, the departure time becomes outdated almost immediately. A simple "leave now" option could help here. Also would be great to see alternative routes to compare weather differences.
Overall though, super useful tool. I can see myself checking this before longer trips

by doctoboggan

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I’ve wanted something like this, but optimized for star gazing during road trips. I’d love for your tool to be able to tell me the best place stop along my route taking into account my expected travel location, light pollution, cloud cover, moon position, etc.
I live and spend most of my time in cities, so long road trips are some of my bests chances for seeing good stars out in the country.
Would your tool be adaptable to this use case?

by wlesieutre

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Similar concept to Weather on the Way, for the iOS folks
https://weatherontheway.app/
Looks good and I like being able to browse the map on a desktop, though for actual travel use the app with CarPlay support obviously has benefits

by max8539

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Just a week ago, I asked ChatGPT to find me something and found Drive Weather iOS app, which I started using. I was also thinking of building something myself, but this one is good enough. Have you tried it or any other similar apps? Why did you decide to build a new one and why is it better? (Building just for fun is an option as well!)

by herpderperator

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Nice app! I see that the page title says "client" and there's the Vite favicon still, which you might want to fix :)
I also think having a dropdown for the address search is somewhat expected these days, but is lacking here. That might be on purpose or due to a technical limitation, but just thought I'd mention.

by magesh_magi1

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I've applied for a patent for this very idea easily 10 years back but didn't get past my company. I've faced the issue when I travel from my office to home easily 1 hour journey without knowing when it'll rain where.
Good execution. How accurate it'll be within city

by skyberrys

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Nice tool, I like how it updates the weather based on the time you will be driving through it. When I've driven across the country on road trips we used flight planning software to dodge thunderstorms.

by big_toast

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I immediately did SF to Reno through sacramento and south lake tahoe. Wildly different even in four hours.
A URL that persists the entered route might be desirable (especially to demo here). Otherwise I'm sure the additional features are endless.

by emien

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This is really nice, cool idea!
One thing I noticed: when I enter a destination that isn’t drivable like requires a flight, it returns OSRM API Error. Might be worth handling that case more gracefully or showing a clearer message.

by hahooh

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I would appreciate the option to set the distance unit to KM.

by RyJones

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The route from Tallinn to Warsaw to Kyiv was pretty good! Nice tool.

by bawana

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St thomas to grenada gives ospm api error

by addandsubtract

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I hate when there's "NetworkError when attempting to fetch resource" on my journey.

by vedato

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by pablovarela

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