GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 310805
no weather info for Sao Carlos
Last modified: 2008-11-30 00:57:58 UTC
Please describe the problem: Sao Carlos, Brazil is a selectable location in gweather but forcasts don't seem to be available. Steps to reproduce: 1. create a weather applet on the panel 2. select the location: "Central and South America" -> "Brazil" -> "Sao Carlos" 3. look at weather report Actual results: "?" icon is displayed, and tooltip stays as "Updating..." Expected results: See weather info Does this happen every time? yes Other information: If there is no weather station for Sao Carlos, perhaps it should be removed from the locations list? I wonder how many other locations don't actually get weather reports?
I can reproduce this bug with gnome-applets 2.10.1-0ubuntu2. According to the Locations.xml file, the code for São Carlos is SBSA, if that is correct, then METAR doesn't have any weather information for São Carlos: http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/mgetmetar.pl?cccc=SBSA
There was an airport in São Carlos, so it isn't surprising that there is an airport code for the location. It is also a fairly small town (~ 100,000 people, about 3 hours from São Paulo), so it isn't too surprising that NOAA wouldn't track forcasts for it. This does bring up questions about the quality of the locations list though: how many other locations don't provide weather info?
This issue has also been reported on the Ubuntu Launchpad bug tracker: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gnome-applets/+bug/29703 The locations are different, however: * New Zealand/Dunedin * Australia/NSW/Williamtown Thanks
| This does bring up questions about the quality of the locations list though: | how many other locations don't provide weather info? I've had a cron job running on my machine on work for a while now.. I'll put together more complete info soon but a quick scan suggests that about 1/3 of the stations in the METAR list don't provide readings. One option would be to add another element to each station location which lists out the nearest 'n' stations based on the station coordinates. How does that sound?
ubuntu 7.04, weather report 2.18.0 location - san jose, CA connected to internet weather report - details - showing 15th may as current date...though its 17th here... having this prob since few days... also changed location, no change in date... any suggestion ??
Similar problem. Get no info if i choose sweden/östersund/frösön. But I know this airport changed its code to ESNZ not too long ago. All other locations(i have tried) work great. http://weather.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/mgetmetar.pl?cccc=ESNZ
Moving libgweather-specific bugs out of gweather-applet
the new Locations.xml.in code strips out non-reporting stations, so this is fixed as of 2.24