Weather Data for Dhaka, Bangladesh not updating regularly

Bug #796245 reported by John D Marsden
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libgweather (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

The METAR weather feed for Dhaka has been VGZR. However this feed has not been reliably transmitting data recently. (see http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/VGZR). Therefore up to date weather data has not been showing in the desktop panel applet.

There is a more recent weather feed at VGHS which is at Dhaka Airport (see http://weather.gladstonefamily.net/site/VGHS) and uses the new name for the airport (i.e. Hazrat Shajahal Intl Airport not Zia Intl Airport).

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/libgweather/Locations.xml.

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://www.rap.ucar.edu/weather/surface/stations.txt to make the same point as this is impact many sites delivering weather information from METAR data.

Tags: lucid oneiric
madbiologist (me-again)
tags: added: lucid oneiric
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dino99 (9d9) wrote :

Closing that outdated report as EOL has been reached long time ago

Changed in libgweather (Ubuntu):
status: New → Invalid
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