On Monday 25 of January 2021 09:54:22 deloptes wrote: > 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. > > > ____________________________________________________ Just to add: Who uses deb packages from the PSB (r14.0.x~pre) or PTB (r14.1.0~pre) repositories already have updated packages available. Thanks to that, I noticed that for some station names there are identical names for more stations - I saw it, for example, in Canada / Yukon - 2 × Dawson, 2 × Tuktoyaktuk. Other stations with the same name can be found in other regions. Maybe there would be a good idea to add some identification to the name, which station is which. Cheers -- Slávek
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