Localising Weather Applications
There are a number of weather related applictions for the Linux desktop. Most
of these lookup up weather data from airport meteorological stations. These
stations are identified by an international 4 character abbreviation. These
applcications use this to lookup the corect watehr information.
Applications
gweather
evolution
kweather
Problems
In Evolution there is a problem in that location names are not localisable.
This bug [http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89746] refers to this problem.
Where do you get the data
More pressing then the localisability is the fact that many localitions
are missing for countries. The data is easily retreived. Use the following
URLs to identify weather stations in yor country and locations.
You may have to correct a few where names have changed eg airport names or to
reflect to a normal user not an aeroplane pilot where this site is located.
This is a good listing of sites sorted by country
https://www.notams.jcs.mil/common/icao/index.html
http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oso/site.shtml
Contains downloadbale ASCII version and instructions on obtaining hardcopy
versions - downloadable version seems to be missing
http://www.wapf.com/world/FALA.html
Produces nice maps and proximity to other stations to help you identify the
location.
http://www.partow.net/miscellaneous/airportdatabase/
A database representation of the ICAO codes.
http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml
You can retreive data from multipl stations. Usefull to check whether the ICAO
code is valid for weather data.
http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/mgetmetar.pl?cccc=FAJS
The actual URL used by gweather to retreive weather data.
Please also check the data of the weather, it might be so out of date that it
is not valid.
Evolution Locations File
/usr/share/evolution/1.4/Locations
Create a country definition and ensure it is included under your region. Add
locations into your region file.