GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 161096
What is a NEXRAD and how should it be capitalised?
Last modified: 2005-01-15 15:42:32 UTC
31 Somewhere Nexrads, one Nexrad on its own, and three Something NEXRADs. Out of curiosity, what is a nexrad? :) More relevantly, should these not all be capitalised similarly for consistency?
Oh. Urr. In gnome-applets/po-locations/ list, from Locations.xml.in. Sorry.
NEXt generation RADAR is what I'm led to believe. I'm not sure on the capitalisation myself. I think I was setting locations to be in sentance case. What do you think it's appropriate?
I searched for 'nexrad' on NOAA's web site (noaa.gov) and all instances were capitalized. Looking at Weather Underground's help page (http://www.wunderground.com/radar/help.asp) shows all capitalized. The only instance that I can see where they do change the case to 'Nexrad' is on their 'U.S Nexrad Stations' page (http://www.wunderground.com/radar/map.asp), but this may have been done for title consistency. If you look at the navigation bar on the top of the page, it is 'NEXRAD' rather than 'Nexrad.' I imagine NOAA would want you to use 'NEXRAD' :) As for what is NEXRAD, see (http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/stories/radar5.html). It looks like it can refer to the network of radars as well as an individual station.
All caps? How ugly... But yes, that sounds likely. It makes it plainer that it's an acronym or something too. Thanks! I think it would be best at least to make them all the same capitalisation, just for consistency. I think Nexrad is easier on the eyes, but I can see that NEXRAD has arguments in favour too. Probably should be NEXRAD? PS I am learning more than I ever wanted to know about weather and geography here!
Telsa, you should be able to do a search and replace in vim (or your favourite editor) to make them all the same. I think I did it inconstantly I think. How are you going with this and the rest of your patches to update the database?
Committed. I have made them all NEXRAD. I think Nexrad is nicer, but we can't have anyone else going along thinking they're all a city :)