Re: gnome-applets locations data (yet again)

[Clytie Siddall <clytie riverland net au>]

On 30/08/2006, at 5:49 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 15:33 +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote:
> > I'm updating gnome-applets, and checking my translation against the
> > file quoted [1].
> >
> > Using the information recorded for Sài Gòn (a.k.a T.P. Hồ Chí
> > Minh):
> >
> > > <location>
> > >       <_name>Ho Chi Minh</_name>
> > >       <code>VVTS</code>
> > >       <coordinates>10-49N 106-40E</coordinates>
> > >     </location>
> >
> > the lat. and long, are fine, but how do I fill in:
> >
> > "A three-digit-long code for retrieving radar maps from weather.com"
> >
> > and
> >
> > "A unique zone for the city"
> >
> > ?
> >
> > Is "VVTS" the "three-digit code"? And what is the zone?
>
> Hi Clytie,
> the <code></code> is the ICAO Location Indicator for the airport, and
> it's four letters long. For the full list, see
> http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml
> Each airport has a ICAO code, and each airport needs to submit their
> current weather data so that they are available to the aviation
> industry. GNOME Applets simply uses that information to display the
> weather of the nearby city (assuming the airport is near the city).
>
> The "radar" from weather.com, AFAIK, works only for US and Canada,
> therefore for other countries it is not used.
>
> Hope this helps,

Yes, thanks, Simos. Unfortunately, the gnome-applets-locations PO  
file simply refers you to the  file I quoted. If the information  
isn't there, it is confusing.

from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm  
Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
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