Querying from my current location returns weather from a different town with the same name

[mschaaf]

I am currently located in
"Halle (Saale), Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany" and
https://wttr.in returns the weather for
"Halle, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany"

Update:

curl https://wttr.in/ from a Wi-Fi connection of a local ISP provider in Halle (Saale) returns the weather of Halle (Westfalen) instead of Halle (Saale). The same happens by opening https://wttr.in in a browser. My expectation is that the location chosen is Halle (Saale) as I am currently using a Wi-Fi connection inside the town. wttr.in seems to know the name of the town I am in but does pick the wrong one with the same name.

[vitusson]

curl wttr.in/Halle,Germany?1
Weather report: Halle,Germany

  \   /     Sunny
   .-.      20 °C          
― (   ) ―   ← 22 km/h      
   `-’      10 km          
  /   \     0.0 mm         
                                                   ┌─────────────┐                                                       

┌──────────────────────────────┬───────────────────────┤ Wed 01 May ├───────────────────────┬──────────────────────────────┐
│ Morning │ Noon └──────┬──────┘ Evening │ Night │
├──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┼──────────────────────────────┤
│ \ / Sunny │ \ / Sunny │ \ / Sunny │ \ / Clear │
│ .-. 19 °C │ .-. 22 °C │ .-. 19 °C │ .-. 16 °C │
│ ― ( ) ― ← 26-32 km/h │ ― ( ) ― ← 27-32 km/h │ ― ( ) ― ← 29-49 km/h │ ― ( ) ― ← 23-40 km/h │
│ -’ 10 km │ -’ 10 km │ -’ 10 km │ -’ 10 km │
│ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │ / \ 0.0 mm | 0% │
└──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┴──────────────────────────────┘
Location: Halle (Saale), Sachsen-Anhalt, 06108, Deutschland [51.4825041,11.9705452]

[mschaaf]

curl https://wttr.in/ from a Wi-Fi connection of a local ISP provider in Halle (Saale) returns the weather of Halle (Westfalen) instead of Halle (Saale). The same happens by opening https://wttr.in/ in a browser. My expectation is that the location chosen is Halle (Saale) as I am currently using a Wi-Fi connection inside the town. wttr.in seems to know the name of the town I am in but does pick the wrong one with the same name.

[vitusson]

Then the geoiplookup database is wrong, nothing wtrr.in can do about. No wonder if there are like a dozen Halles here in Germany.
Just use the right URl and everything is fine…

[mschaaf]

ip2location returns the correct town, state and country and also the correct geo coordinates for my ip.

[mschaaf]

wttr.in does not use the region for Germany. See code in

wttr.in/lib/location.py

Line 378 in 575908a

# In United States region is important, because there are a lot of