Bug 556843 - Remove small towns and attach airports to cities
Remove small towns and attach airports to cities
Status: NEW
Product: libgweather
Classification: Core
Component: locations
3.14.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: future
Assigned To: libgweather-maint
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Reported: 2008-10-18 14:54 UTC by André Klapper
Modified: 2017-12-15 19:20 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description André Klapper 2008-10-18 14:54:27 UTC
msgid "Abū Mūsā"
Ah, a small island with about 500 inhabitants, according to Wikipedia. Sure, very helpful.

msgid "Ad Dalfa'ah"
a very small town near to the big city of Brydah. Why not listing Brydah itself?

msgid "Allison Harbour"
a very small town in canada, while the big Canadian Vancouver (200km away) is not even available in the list

#. Translators: this is a city in Saudi Arabia
#: ../data/Locations.xml.in.h:570
msgid "Ar Ruqayyiqah"

Not a city. It's a very small suburb of Al Hofuf it seems. So why not using Al Hofuf?


#. Translators: this is a city in Texas in the United States
#: ../data/Locations.xml.in.h:760
msgid "Austin"
msgstr "Austin"

#: ../data/Locations.xml.in.h:761
msgid "Austin City, Austin Camp Mabry"
msgstr "Austin City, Austin Camp Mabry"

Is that needed? That's just 5km away from each other. I don't care about those 0.1F difference between city center and the military camp.


#. Translators: this is a city in Quebec in Canada
#: ../data/Locations.xml.in.h:826
msgid "Baie-de-la-Trinité"

It is "Baie-Trinité" and has according to wikipedia 589 inhabitants. This is just ridiculous.


The german towns are also in fact often small villages. I had to look up lots of them though I know this country quite well IMO.
In general: It's useless to list village names instead of big cities. I do NOT know the name of the third village if I drive west from the big city I live in. 

So do you really want me to hunt down the smallest villages in the middle of nowhere?

I stopped my translation efforts here and won't continue. Updating the po file looks like a huge waste of time to me.
Comment 1 Alexandre Franke 2014-10-31 21:16:40 UTC
These strings are still present and as per https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/LibGWeather/ImprovingLocations#Getting_Rid_of_Junk they should be removed.
Comment 2 André Klapper 2017-12-15 19:20:53 UTC
(Geez, reading my comment from nine years ago makes me want to edit it and change tone. Sorry.)

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