GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 272056
evolution weather calendars only for US
Last modified: 2013-09-10 13:42:05 UTC
This bug has been opened here: https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/6052 "In the weather calendar in evolution, the only locations available are for the US, Puerto Rico and Virgin Islands. As an Australian I'd obviously wish Australia weather to be available, but this should be expanded for all countries on our planet."
IMO for consistency with the weather applet, all the same locations should be available. Can't they use the same backend for retreiving weather data ? CC myself.
From Canada, I agree. Since when is software US only? Other parts of Gnome support international weather - why isn't/can't that be re-used?
*** Bug 351563 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
chen?
I will not be able to do this as of now. If anyone is interested, i can help them out.
OpenSUSE bug https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=129116
an Australian weather calendar is on my wishlist for Evolution too. Australian weather is available via Gnome panel applet but it is still not included in Evolution. Maybe Jeff (gnome-au) can suggest someone to do it?
update on Ubuntu bug -- the URL changed to https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/+bug/12430
Clock applet has integrated weather information (at least in OpenSUSE 11.0) so it will be a less required feature for evolution though my opinion, you can disagree :)
*** Bug 489300 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
From a brief inspection of the source, it's clear that the Evolution calendar's weather facility is using forecast data provided by the NOAA, which only provides information for North America. (See /calendar/backends/weather/Locations.xml.in in the evolution-data-server source tree for a list of URLs.) Adding support for other countries would require the identification and use of some other data source(s) of weather forecasts. The BBC are one possibility; they provide RSS feeds of weather forecast information via http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/ for many cities and locations worldwide. Cheers, David
As stated in comment #9 the clock/weather applet is already able to show weather info for instance for Germany. So it shouldn't be too hard to port this, or even better factor this out to a library that can be used everywhere!?
Re: Comment #12 The information being used by the GNOME clock/weather applet is only a small subset which is required for Evolution. The GNOME weather applet only shows the _current_ weather. However, to be useful, the Evolution weather information source needs to provide _forecasts_ of future weather. Cheers, David
*** Bug 552736 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
The change to the pre-req bug has been completed. I am now able to set the weather to other regions (for example, Bruxelles). Nevertheless, the comment 13 above still applies, methinks.
We could use ICAO data.
Might be interesting to implement also support for this [1] in libgweather. [1] http://wiki.wunderground.com/index.php/API_-_XML#ForecastXML
It was done within bug #352287, thus I'm marking this as a duplicate. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 352287 ***