Weather applet missing location: Bangalore, India

[Arvind]

Hi,

Distribution: Ubuntu 8.10
Package: libgweather1 2.24.1-0ubuntu1

The weather location database is missing Bangalore, India. Based on information from the two URLs below, I've come up with an entry. I've also verified that it works correctly.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bangalore
http://www.flyhoward.com/AptSearch.aspx?Search=blr

The entry missing from Locations.xml is:

            <city>
                <name>Bangalore</name>
                <coordinates>12.966666 77.566666</coordinates>
                <location>
                    <name>Bangalore Airport / Bengaluru Airport</name>
                    <code>VOBG</code>
                    <coordinates>12.949986 77.668206</coordinates>
                </location>
            </city>

This should be in the "India" part of the Locations.xml file. Excerpt pasted:

        <country>
            <name>India</name>
            <iso-code>IN</iso-code>
            <fips-code>IN</fips-code>
            <timezones>
                <timezone id="Asia/Kolkata"/>
            </timezones>
            <tz-hint>Asia/Kolkata</tz-hint>
            ...

Thanks.

[Arvind (arvind-sv)]

I missed out the international airport in Bangalore. Its code is VOBL. But, since it is about 40 kilometres (~ 25 miles) from the city, I believe that the previous snippet (for airport VOBG) is more representative of the weather of the city, at large. But, if you need the real international airport, its details are as below:

            <city>
                <name>Bangalore - International</name>
                <coordinates>12.966666 77.566666</coordinates>
                <location>
                    <name>Bangalore International Airport</name>
                    <code>VOBL</code>
                    <coordinates>13.198888 77.705555</coordinates>
                </location>
            </city>

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bengaluru_International_Airport

Thank you.

[Ted (tedks)]

I'm attaching the debdiff for this change.

[Luke Faraone (lfaraone)]

Please also consider pushing this patch upstream.

@Ted:

libgweather uses a patch system, which allows changes like this to persist between package updates. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/PatchSystems explains how to use this, pretty much you check whether the package uses a patchsystem with "which-patch", and in this case, use "cdbs-edit patch PATCH_NAME", make your changes, exit the new shell it provided you, and then make your debdiff.

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

i extracted the diff, added it to the patchsystem and will sponsor it now. Thanks!

Please remember to send the patch upstream!!

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

btw, not sure why bangalore international has the same location as "bangalore":

<name>Bangalore - International</name>
+ <coordinates>12.966666 77.566666</coordinates>

But well. seems to be ok in general.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package libgweather - 2.25.91-0ubuntu2

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libgweather (2.25.91-0ubuntu2) jaunty; urgency=low

  * fix LP: #331908 - Weather applet missing location: Bangalore, India;
    patch by Ted Smith <email address hidden>

 -- Alexander Sack <email address hidden> Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:45:33 +0100

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

forwarded patch to upstream bugzilla: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=572839

[Arvind (arvind-sv)]

First of all. Thanks all of you for you very quick responses and the fix. You guys rock!

To Alexander Sack's question about the coordinates:

I saw that the XML tags are:

<city>
   <name>
   <coordinates>

So, I thought that the coordinates are for the city. Ideally, this entry should have been like this:

 <city>
                <name>Bangalore</name>
                <coordinates>12.966666 77.566666</coordinates>
                <location>
                    <name>Bangalore Airport / Bengaluru Airport</name>
                    <code>VOBG</code>
                    <coordinates>12.949986 77.668206</coordinates>
                </location>
                <location>
                    <name>Bangalore International Airport</name>
                    <code>VOBL</code>
                    <coordinates>13.198888 77.705555</coordinates>
                </location>
            </city>

The coordinates of the city remain the same, and there are two locations. But, the gnome weather applet (in the clock applet) does not seem to show locations. It seems to show cities. So, it probably won't show both locations.

[Indian Art (goldfish-aol)]

Hi,

I read the whole thread and am still not able to add Bangalore to the Weather Report 2.24.1.

I am not a technical person and am in the learning process.

Please could you let me know how I could add Bangalore to the Weather Report 2.24.1. I use Ubuntu 8.10 and have installed all the updates.

Thanks

[Zaki Manian (zmanian)]

This bug has not been fixed as of karmic and should be reopened

[BK Singh (bksingh)]

Hi,

I am facing problem to add Bangalore location in ubuntu weather applet. So please guide regard this.
Thanks
BK singh.

[Zaki Manian (zmanian)]

I believe this is fixed in Maverick