The explanation on the symbols page is poor, but the actual text in the feed is pretty consistant. I've only needed to match ten phrases to smbols since I wrote my weather map on the 1st of June. (Admittedly, most of those are variants on "pi**ing down"... but I digress.) So, I match the phrases to these icons like so...
"sunny intervals" = "icons/3_sunny_int.png"; "heavy showers" = "icons/14_heavy_rain.png"; "light rain" = "icons/10_light_rain.png"; "sunny" = "icons/1_sunny_day.png"; "cloudy" = "icons/8_black_lev_cloud.png"; "light showers" = "icons/10_light_rain.png"; "heavy rain" = "icons/13_heavy_rain_showers.png"; "thunderstorm" = "icons/29_thundery_shower.png"; "thundery showers" = "icons/29_thundery_shower.png"; "drizzle" = "icons/9_light_rain_driz.png"; And yes - I'm well aware that the BBC only seems to recognise one kind of thunder when it comes to icons, but see fit to differentiate between thunderstorms and thundery showers in text. I was worried when I started the project that I'd need to pick up sunny intervals, sunny spells, sunny periods, sunny breaks etc. It seems not. Map at: www.sdldev.co.uk/weather/map.asp Cheers, Rich. On 7/25/07, ~:'' ありがとうございました。 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
who to ask? weather feeds: why is the "explanation of the symbols" not used consistently" Who at the BBC publishes the weather feeds? why is it that the text description and images are not consistent? in other words, why is the "explanation of the symbols" not used consistently? London today forecast text is "cloudy" as it was in yesterday's forecast for today. whereas the graphic yesterday was "partly cloudy" today it is "black low level cloud" because the text and graphic are not related consistently as per the explanation of symbols it seems virtually impossible to use the feed accurately. regards Jonathan Chetwynd http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/features/symbols.shtml http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/0008.xml http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=0008 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
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