GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 147719
Forecast for other Regions of the world
Last modified: 2017-12-01 16:16:27 UTC
Distribution: Unknown Package: gnome-applets Severity: enhancement Version: GNOME2.6.2 unspecified Gnome-Distributor: GNOME.Org Synopsis: Forecast for other Regions of the world Bugzilla-Product: gnome-applets Bugzilla-Component: gweather Bugzilla-Version: unspecified Description: Please describe your feature request: Can it eventually feature forecast for other regions of the world except US. Thank you. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2004-07-16 10:07 ------- Unknown platform unknown. Setting to default platform "Other". Unknown milestone "unknown" in product "gnome-applets". Setting to default milestone for this product, '---' The original reporter of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the person who moved it here, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Previous reporter was ccd@mail.bg. Setting to default status "UNCONFIRMED". Setting qa contact to the default for this product. This bug either had no qa contact or an invalid one.
gweather already supports forecasts for both Australia and the UK, although the UK forecasts are currently broken. To be able to add forecast for other countries/regions we need to know the URL to the forecast on a website. Ideally the forecast information should be in plain text as this makes it much easier to parse and thus means it will be added to gweather much quicker. Patches for adding forecasts for other countries/regions are more than welcome.
UK Forecasts are being covered in #140677
Ideally, this is a job for weather.gnome.org
Marking for G12. But if anyone implements code for G10, it will able to be moved into weather.gnome.org.
Without looking at any code: Doesn't gweather use weather.com for the information? Weather.com seems to support forcast for alot more locations then gweather shows (like sweden, searching for stockholm gives radarmaps and forcasts. Gweather show neither).
Gweather uses a variety of things for Forecasts, I don't think any of those happens to be weather.com. There are licensing issues with reusing people's weather data. Weather.gnome.org will be aware of those, if it ever gets finished.
I'm using GNOME 2.16.1 (gweather 2.16.0.1) and I can't see any forecast for Brasil.
Weather should be retrieved from AccuWeather. They're providing forecasts for many places on Earth.
No Canada forecasts either..
Moving libgweather-specific bugs out of gweather-applet
Still no new modification? In Belgium, still NO weather forecast... Please read http://www.mail-archive.com/debian-user@lists.debian.org/msg567666.html.
Created attachment 189758 [details] screenshot of my Perl scripts in conky
Can anyone tell if there are any licensing issues with this idea: 1. ask user his registration data at weather.com (par and key) 2. ask user the location id at weather.com (e.g. UPXX0021 for Odesa, Ukraine) 3. fetch weather forecast from http://xoap.weather.com with user provided data in XML format I made a set of Perl scripts for myself and using them with conky I have a 5 day forecast (there's a screenshot above). It would be nice to use this way with gweather.
If there are problems with the current sources that are used, please file bugs about the specific issues you're seeing. To add new sources, I updated the HACKING file to enumerate the requirements, and new sources should meet those. Even if feature requests are filed, they will need to contain information about all those requirements. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=791086 I'll close this bug as it contains nothing actionable.