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Weather search / safe travel

Submitted by: siliconglen
Created: Aug 9, 2006, 2:49 am

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A Google maps mashup which allows people to mark the typical min and max day and night temperatures per month for where they are, together with rainfall and wind speed. The idea for this is that it could be plugged into a travel website search engine to allow people to search for holiday destinations by temperature. This would allow them to discover new destinations that meet their climate requirement and which might be a bit more off the beaten track and perhaps cheaper than the usual places. Also, it would allow you to compare various places. In the face of global warming and hurricanes, drought, heatwaves, becoming more of an issue perhaps the idea of "where is it comfortable to have a holiday or live for the next 20 years" is going to change. This could then be overlayed over time with other risk factors such as earthquakes, political instability etc. Especially good if you've got kids, you don't want rain but you don't want them to bake either!

I thought of this idea when I was...

Thinking about where in the world is a safe place to live, free from water shortages, hurricanes, heat waves and yet not too cold and rainy. At the minute I have South East Scotland on my list, but I'm sure there's plenty other places, would be nice to know where they are if we're planning a holiday or to emigrate.

Comments Posted

GirarJ Posted: August 9, 2006, 12:00 pm

To expound. This could be used for more then weather. You could have modules: food (spicy-vegetarian-sushi), activity (swimming-biking-spelunking), infrastructure (unpaved roads-horse drawn carriage), music (caribbean-ska-folk-rock & roll), etc. Weather is important for some people for vacations - but their is a niche (& with these modules I believe it would grow) of users who would like to precisely select their vactaion & travel destination based on very particular pieces! What do you think?

siliconglen Posted: August 10, 2006, 2:23 pm

So, the day after I post it London has a major terrorist threat. Maybe my "safe travel" idea could be expanded along the lines that GirarJ suggested from weather problems to have additional modules, one of which would include terrorism ...

GirarJ Posted: August 11, 2006, 7:05 am

What about a Garden Gnome module?

Christine Posted: August 31, 2006, 2:41 pm

If I was travelling somewhere - I would just buy the lonely planet guide book and just look up the average temperatures there. They have average temperatures, rainfall... how does this idea make money? advertising revenue?

DividedEye Posted: July 31, 2007, 2:40 pm

agree with Christine, i think it would be hard to monitize unless you could sell it to an exisiting site.

saigon Posted: August 1, 2007, 11:46 pm

yup...the GNOme MOdule... updates pls?

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