Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 15:22:27 +0200 From: Piotr Smyrak <piotr.smyrak@heron.pl> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: gnome@freebsd.org Subject: Re: gweather/Locations Message-ID: <20040518152227.0d74c20e@beth.poprostu.pl> In-Reply-To: <20040516213321.0D57C5D07@ptavv.es.net> References: <20040516162012.1f39f590@beth.poprostu.pl> <20040516213321.0D57C5D07@ptavv.es.net>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
On Sun, 16 May 2004 14:33:21 -0700, "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote: > > Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 16:20:12 +0200 > > From: Piotr Smyrak <piotr.smyrak@heron.pl> > > > > On Sat, 15 May 2004 20:49:41 -0700, "Kevin Oberman" > > <oberman@es.net> > > wrote: > > > > > > From: Piotr Smyrak <piotr.smyrak@heron.pl> > > > > > > > > Do you know of any information source on the format of > > > > gweather Locations file? > > > > > > > > /usr/X11R6/share/gnome/gweather/Locations > > > > > > Use the source. Search for 'url' in weather.c and you will > > > find that it gets data from various places at NOAA. The > > > primary information for current weather is at metar.noaa.gov. > > > Forecasts come from other NOAA sites and I am not sure how > > > many non-US locations are available. > > > > Yes, this is what I was doing, but all I get is some > > understanding of the fields, but I fail to find information on > > what kind of code most of them require, and where I can get > > those codes. > > > > So those are: name, code, zone, radar. And for: > > > > loc3=Anchorage PANC AKZ015 alaska > > > > name is Anchorage > > code is PANC > > zone is AKZ015 > > and finally radar is alaska > > > > The code is actually an ICAO code for air ports, but what about > > zone and radar? Is zone a postal zip or what? > > They are a "weather zone". Forecasts are made on larger zones that > usually cover several reporting stations. That's what the zones > are for. The'radar' value is an even larger area (especially near > the Arctic and Antarctic due to the location of the satellites at > the equator. > Thanks a lot for all information. > > I wanted to update info on Polish cities. And yesterday I got > > the ICAO codes ready, but I would also like to fill the other > > two fields. Also I was wondering about the regions codes, > > whether there is any world standard in there, see: > > [snip] > > Actually, the format is by continent or other global region. The > top of te file contains the list of regions: NA EU AF OZ ME AS M_ > AT for N. America, Europe, Africa, Australia/New Zealand, Middle > East, Asia, Central and South America, and Atlantic. Each of those > regions has a list of more local regions, usually countries or, > for larger countries, states. Yeah, I understand that. But I was wondering about the lower level regions, anyway I already resolved that. I wasn't probably explaining myself :-} Sorry and thank you. -- Piotr Smyrak piotr.smyrak@heron.pl
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040518152227.0d74c20e>