Fix OpenWeatherMap API Call

[ben-miles]

OpenWeatherMap updated their API quite a bit since I last worked on this project.

API requests by city name, zip-codes and city id have been deprecated in the Current API endpoint. You can still get a response for queries of only a city name, but if the name applies to more than one city worldwide, you get the first result -- so they may not be accurate (example: "London" returns results for London, UK, but the user could possibly mean London, Ohio, USA). Additionally, it's not super intuitive to users to enter only a city name.

They've introduced a Geocoder API endpoint which will take any string and return 1 or more objects that match, along with their specific latitude and longitude...

So perhaps the interface should be updated to hit that Geocoder endpoint first, maybe 1 second after the user stops typing. Then, if there's only 1 result, pass it to the Current Weather endpoint and return the results -- and if there's 2 or more results, present those in a dropdown below the current input field so the user can click the relevant one, and then fetch the Current Weather. Just my first thought for now!

[ben-miles]

AccuWeather has a perfect illustration of the concept I outlined above.