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Comment by TylerE | Hacker News Reader

Does anyone else HATE pages like this? Just show me the damn map and not 5 different pop up overlays, many animated, depending on how hard scrolled down I am.

Oh, and their "zip code" search is broken, it takes me to the state capital over a hundred miles away, in a totally different climactic zone. Doubly broken.

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They don't have a zip code search as far as I can tell. It asks you to enter your city and state or use the "Surprise me!" button.

99.9% of web search forms that ask for a city accept a zip code, and are often more accurate when doing so, as even a mid sized city can be composed of dozens of zip codes, never mind places like Central Manhattan where some zipcodes resolve all the way down to single buildings.

...but this page is part of the 0.1% (by your math) that actually wants what it asked for. So, this is just a case of user error. Enter what it asked for and it works great.

Harrison Township, Michigan goes to Harrison City, PA. I then tried the city to the south - Saint Clair Shores, MI and that took me to San Antonio, Texas. I'm working in East China, Michigan and that took me to East Chicago, Indiana. I ended up just using Detroit, MI to get anything useful. So, no, that doesn't work either.

As a Canadian, constraining the data viz by political border is annoying.

Your tax dollars paid for it btw

Less than 1% of NPR funding comes from taxes.

NPR could have spent every single taxpayer dollar they received for the year on this one project and it would still be a rounding error on the national budget.

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