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I like the UI generating the URL to send to the API vs just a PDF of all of the possible key/value pairs to generate manually. A little above&beyond for most APIs I've used personally. Its effort not lost on me.

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Glad you like it! Bootstrap v5 helped a lot :)

I hope to improve the UX a bit further with a city-search for example. Unfortunately I am lacking a good geocoding API for that.

You could export Wikidata objects if it is good enough for you to cover 99% of all places.

I was thinking to use the geonames location database and build a simple fuzzy search engine around it.

What wikidata objects are you referring to?

Maybe human settlement (Q486972) or city/town (Q7930989)? I haven't checked, but I would guess most of them have some coordinate location (P625), especially the bigger ones.

UltraWeather uses the openweather geocoding API[1]:

https://openweathermap.org/api/geocoding-api

Pretty generous free tier, and paid options seem pretty reasonable.

[1]: https://github.com/Leftium/ultra-weather#specify-a-location

I recently contributed to https://github.com/tomayac/local-reverse-geocoder - while it's a reverse geocoder, it a ready template for downloading OSM cities data and searching through it.

I've been using the GeoLite2 [0] downloadable database as a fallback for CoreLocation in my macOS app for changing monitor brightness based on the sun position [1].

It works well and with zero maintenance if you use their auto-updating Docker image [2].

[0] https://dev.maxmind.com/geoip/geolite2-free-geolocation-data

[1] https://lunar.fyi

[2] https://hub.docker.com/r/maxmindinc/geoipupdate

Yeah, this is a really nice touch!

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