GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 562742
Finland locations
Last modified: 2009-12-21 05:56:08 UTC
In response to http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160163#c16 I am creating a separate bug for locations in Finland.
Created attachment 123684 [details] [review] Patch for Helsinki-Vantaa problem This patch against the current trunk splits Vantaa (with the Helsinki-Vantaa weather station) to a separate city, leaving only Helsinki-Malmi inside Helsinki proper. This is slighly dubious because if we add Vantaa, we should probably also add Espoo and possibly Kerava, Sipoo, Kauniainen, etc; but I'd regard this as a bit of a special case, as the administrative geography of Helsinki is kind of wacky, and the weather station at Helsinki-Vantaa airport is somewhat significant nationally.
As per the "more than 100,000 inhabitants" rule, the Finnish cities should be Helsinki (Helsingfors) 565,186 Espoo (Esbo) 235,809 Tampere (Tammerfors) 206,480 Vantaa (Vanda) 190,625 Turku (Åbo) 175,284 Oulu (Uleåborg) 130,526 (Source: 2006 census data, as collected in Wikipedia: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Finland>) Oulu and Tampere have insignificant Swedish populations, but the Swedish localization should have all of these with their Swedish names, of course. As per the "important regional capital", I guess Mariehamn would also qualify, with its Swedish name as the preferred form. Thanks for the updated instructions at http://live.gnome.org/action/login/LibGWeather/ImprovingLocations -- my understanding is now that simply listing these in the major cities file should coincidentally also fix the Helsinki-Vantaa problem. I'll be working on a revised patch.
All except Espoo and Vantaa are already in the file at http://www.gnome.org/~danw/Locations.xml.in but to be on the safe side I suppose all of them should be listed? The coordinates are from Wikipedia, too. # Finland (FI). Source: 2006 census data, obtained from # http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_in_Finland> FI 60.170833 24.9375 3 Helsinki # Swedish: Helsingfors FI 60.205556 24.655556 2 Espoo # Swedish: Esbo FI 61.498056 23.760833 2 Tampere # Swedish: Tammerfors FI 60.294444 25.040278 2 Vantaa # Swedish: Vanda FI 60.45 22.266667 2 Turku # Swedish: Åbo FI 65.016667 25.466667 2 Oulu # Swedish: Uleåborg AX 60.093056 19.939167 3 Mariehamn # Finnish: Maarianhamina
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.