E. Liddell wrote: > What can I say? Canada is the second-largest country in the world. We > have vast tracts of thinly populated land (and vast tracts of largely > unpopulated land too), and weather stations are sprinkled all across that. > > In a lot of cases, though, a breakdown by country is going to be > sufficient. A small African nation might have 20 stations or so, which > isn't too much for one list. > Yeah it looks like we need a TDE KWeather committee to rule out the division of the world :D >> There are 6702 in the file from which 2590 are already done because they >> are are in the US. >> A big portion of the rest is just countries (like Europe etc) >> Africa, Russia, Mexico are good candidates. >> >> I could easily map everything from Canada to one country Canada, but it >> will be difficult to find the right station. What do you think > > For the Canadian stations specifically, it should be possible to allocate > a lot of them to provinces based on the annotations at the end of the > "city" field, which are mostly the old conventional provincial > abbreviations that everyone except the post office actually uses: > > N. S. = Nova Scotia > N. B. = New Brunswick > PEI = Prince Edward Island > Nfld = Newfoundland > Que. = Quebec > Ont. = Ontario > Man. = Manitoba > Sask. = Saskatchewan > Alta. = Alberta > B. C. = British Columbia > N. W. T. = North-West Territories > Y. T. = Yukon Territory > > There's some variation in capitalization and punctuation, and locations in > Nunavut are likely to marked as being in the NWT for historical reasons, > but it's a start and should be able to assign most stations in the more > populated areas to a province using a few regular expressions for > matching. > > Some of them can also be assigned automatically based on > latitude/longitude ranges (north of a certain latitude mostly places > things in the Territories, south of it in the provinces, and Québec and > provinces westward *almost* adhere to specific longitudes, although there > are some ambiguous zones—I'll see if I can get some numbers tonight). > we are not writing a PhD here - we want v1.0 v2.0 etc. so lets start simple. I just don't feel like doing this myself. If you know where the name belongs to it would be much easier - to me the names do not say anything (not Canadian) > The rest of them can be dropped in a bin labelled "Canada - Unknown" or > the like and assigned whenever someone figures out where they are. (If we > can find a way of making these assignments easy for a non-technical person > to do, it might be helpful.) > > This is mainly a concern for really large countries (Canada, U.S., > Russia), where if you pick the wrong weather station by mistake, you could > be getting forecasts for the other side of the continent. Yes, I was going to suggest for version 1 to map the stations to something like unknown. For example Mexico is done like this Mexico -> Mexico. This will become Mexico -> Unknown I could of course preserve the already used associations. thank you and regards ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
