Stefan Krusche via tde-users wrote: > Good day! > > Has anyone noticed that kweather applet doesn't update weather data > anymore since some weeks? > > More exactly, weather data for "Berlin-Tegel". Kweather comes obviously > with a database from which you can choose your location (airport). For > Berlin that used to be "Berlin-Tegel" and "Berlin-Tempelhof" (which is > dead since 2009). I checked with "Braunschweig" and it shows actual > current data. > > Last time that happened the URL for retrieving the data had changed on > the part of the server (noaa.gov). This URL was hardcoded in the source > of the software and one of the developers had to change it (Tim did > that) and it worked again since. > > The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the U.S. > Department of Commerce offers a lot of services on nws.noaa.gov where > the local weather data used to be served as single html pages which > were named according to their respective ICAO-Codes (airport IDs). > > I suspect they again changed something, but I couldn't find anything > relevant on their homepage in a couple of minutes. > > "QCLCD ASCII Files are no longer available. Please use the Global-Hourly > File Access link above." > > I don't know what "QCLCD" means. I'm only guessing here anyway. > > Maybe only kweather's database of available airport weather stations > needs to be updated… > Hi, I just wanted to thank all of you and update you on the final status of this, because a broader audience was involved discussing here. I see the changes were scheduled for 14.0.10. "SlavekB added this to the R14.0.10 release milestone 14 hours ago" If some of you are interested in translating, the strings are also available for translation on Weblate. If you find grave misalignments of stations, countries, regions or other irregularities, raise a hand please. I came to the conclusion the grouping is best to follow a geographical and not political belonging, but even this is not easy for some regions. ____________________________________________________ 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
