Weather Data for Dhaka, Bangladesh not updating regularly
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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libgweather (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
The METAR weather feed for Dhaka has been VGZR. However this feed has not been reliably transmitting data recently. (see http://
There is a more recent weather feed at VGHS which is at Dhaka Airport (see http://
As a work-around I have updated the code used by the applet using gconf, but this update will be lost whenever the information is refreshed from /usr/share/
I believe you should add an entry for VGHS in the Locations.xml file and make this the default for Dhaka.
I am still using Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS with libgweather 2.30.0-0ubuntu1 but I have inspected the Locations file in revision 47 in the Oneiric branch and it also only has VGZR, not VGHS for Dhaka.
I am also emailing the maintainer of the weather stations list at http://
tags: | added: lucid oneiric |
Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago