<![CDATA[Blue Dot Inaccuracy and Alternatives]]>The blue dot on the weather radar map is always misplaced for me. I use Windy through a Chrome browser and have location turned off so I can only assume that it's extrapolating my location from my IP address, which also inaccurately places my home's location. Is there a way to either (a) turn off the blue dot completely, or (b) override its location sniff with a user-defined location? No blue dot or a user-defined blue dot in the right place would be vastly better than an automatic, wrongly located, blue dot.

]]>https://community.windy.com/topic/27508/blue-dot-inaccuracy-and-alternativesRSS for NodeMon, 08 Jun 2026 14:13:25 GMTFri, 04 Aug 2023 19:48:39 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Blue Dot Inaccuracy and Alternatives on Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:10:56 GMT]]>@Suty There should be. It's annoying and of no use as it now functions.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/180460https://community.windy.com/post/180460Fri, 23 Feb 2024 20:10:56 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blue Dot Inaccuracy and Alternatives on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:21:14 GMT]]>@rrwier Oops, it just went back to the old bad location. So sad.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/179599https://community.windy.com/post/179599Sat, 17 Feb 2024 14:21:14 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blue Dot Inaccuracy and Alternatives on Sat, 17 Feb 2024 10:39:16 GMT]]>My horrible, distracting, worthless, flashing blue dot (weather radar) just moved over to its correct location (my location!!!). Did you guys fix something?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/179582https://community.windy.com/post/179582Sat, 17 Feb 2024 10:39:16 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blue Dot Inaccuracy and Alternatives on Thu, 07 Dec 2023 08:44:32 GMT]]>@Ondřej-Šutera No, there is no way to turn it off, because windy has adopted the same I-dont-give-a-... attitude as so many other companies that have reach a certain income. All the discussion threads complaining about this issue receive the same answer. And there are quite a few.

The blue dot has been known for years to be defective. Showing location based on IP is bogus, the IP is virtual and can be changed dynamically by large area ISPs any way they see fit. My blue dot also shows my location hundreds of km away.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/171069https://community.windy.com/post/171069Thu, 07 Dec 2023 08:44:32 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blue Dot Inaccuracy and Alternatives on Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:40:23 GMT]]>@sqlmiles Unfortunately, there is no way to turn this off in settings.

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/155187https://community.windy.com/post/155187Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:40:23 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blue Dot Inaccuracy and Alternatives on Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:19:33 GMT]]>My startup (and also real) location is set to Warszawa, but blue dot is placed almost 300 km away. I believe the position of this indicator is based on my IP adress. When i change my internet provider the blue dot appear in diffrient location. In this case the location detected by IP has no value and it is just confusing me. Maybe the setting for startup location shoul override position of this indicator if it is not set to IP address, but it dosn't.
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]]>https://community.windy.com/post/155182https://community.windy.com/post/155182Mon, 07 Aug 2023 11:19:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Blue Dot Inaccuracy and Alternatives on Sat, 05 Aug 2023 06:27:44 GMT]]>@MinnRick
There is no way to turn off the blue dot. Have you tried to set your home location as favorite and then to use this favorite location as start-up location in Settings ?

]]>https://community.windy.com/post/154901https://community.windy.com/post/154901Sat, 05 Aug 2023 06:27:44 GMT