GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 579962
Add Bunbury Western Australia to weather applet
Last modified: 2009-04-24 01:30:28 UTC
Binary package hint: libgweather-common I would like to have my town added to the locations selection for the Weather Report 2.24.1 applet Location of local airport is as follows. Country Australia ICAO ID YBUN Time UTC+8 Latitude -33.378333 33° 22' 42.00" S Longitude 115.676667 115° 40' 36.00" E I think this is all that I have seen requested for this to be done. Many Thanks in advance. Kev 1) The release of Ubuntu you are using, --Ubuntu 8.10 (intrepid), 2.6.27-13-generic (#1 SMP Thu Feb 26 07:26:43 UTC 2009) 2) The version of the package you are using, --- Weather Report 2.24.1 applet (GWeather-common2.24.1) 3) What you expected to happen --- To see Bunbury Western Australia shown 4) What happened instead --- Perth location ( 200km north of Bunbury) we have about 100000 in the area that surrounds us. People using ubuntu would rather prefer to use Bunbury in stead of Perth as we are over 200km south of Perth. Many Thanks Kev
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libgweather/+bug/340442 I started the report when using intrepid but is also for Jaunty.
As with Karratha in the original bug report, YBUN is not actually a weather station, so adding it to the locations database wouldn't actually help any. Coverage of Australia via METAR weather stations is pretty spotty (only 7 stations for the whole state/province/whatever-you-call-them, and 1 of them is a suburb of Perth, so it's really only 6). Maybe someday we should look at using Australian Bureau of Meteorology data instead (IIRC it's freely available for non-commercial use, so we could at least provide the *option* of using that instead of METAR.) But that would be a bunch of work. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 555054 ***
Thanks Dan. At least I tried. I think taking the weather forecast from Australian Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) would be a great idea. That way cyclone warnings if issues could be passed on quickly as well to those that live up North. Thanks again and will leave it for now. A big thank you to all the people involved in the project.