[horde] Weather Block and the Weather Channel

[Michael J Rubinsky]

Quoting Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>:

> On 25 October 2011 11:18, Tom Buehlmann <tomnet at tbuhl.ch> wrote:
>>
>> Zitat von "Alexander M. Wirtz" <lists at zyanka.li>:
>>
>>> Have you tried to follow the steps as described in
>>> http://wiki.horde.org/MetarWeather ?
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Alexander
>>
>> The script didn't work for me. "Zero" points added to Database"
>>
>> I had to fetch the Data manually, because the gz-files just hat zero lenght
>> :(
>>
>> for Airports (i guess)
>> http://weather.noaa.gov/data/nsd_bbsss.txt
>>
>> for country:
>> http://weather.noaa.gov/data/nsd_cccc.txt
>>
>> gzip them and add a -f option to your statemnet pointing to the gz-file
>> using the apropriate -a or -l setting.
>>
>> (see  buildMetarDB.php -h )
>
> Thanks for the preemptive answer to my last question.
>
> I collected the data and reran the commands (but forgot to add the -f
> switch!).  This time I had a DB error..
>
> mail:/usr/share/horde4# php5
> /usr/share/php/data/Services_Weather/buildMetarDB.php -a -u horde -p
> 804LCi -d horde
>         Line 4085: INSERT INTO metarAirports
> VALUES(4084,null,null,'KSTZ','South Timbalier','United
> States','4',28-09-35N,-90.6664,0,0,-74.1806,0,-6377.7186)
> DB Error: no such field
> Services_Weather: 6700 metarAirports added to database 'horde' (1 error(s)).
>
>
> There seems to be an issue with the DB - but I'm not sure this is
> something the Horde team can fix..  However, now I have locations.
>
> When I reran the command with the -f switch I encountered this error
> (or over 6000 of them to be exact)..
>
> Services_Weather: Invalid data in file!
>         Line 18249: ZYTX;--;---;Shenyang /
> Taokian;;China;2;41-48N;123-24E;;;35;;
> Services_Weather: 11548 metarLocations added to database 'horde' (6701
> error(s)).
>
>
> I'm not inclined to be too fussy - it's working (although I haven't
> tried selecting South Timbalier..  Nor am I inclined to.  Oh what the
> heck.  I tried it and it even seemed okay..
>
> As Michael said, it's not pretty, but at least it works.  And it
> doesn't forecast which, I suppose is the main drawback (if I wanted to
> know the weather now, I could just look out the window).

If you select a source that provides a TAF (Terminal Area Forcast) you  
will get at least a short-term forecast. Sources from larger airports  
are a good bet for this.

-- 
mike

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