Richard,
It's true "the actual text in the feed is pretty consistant" it is
consistent, but not in the way defined in the explanations where
there are more than 17 discrete icons used by the BBC.
the fact that you can match 10 text expressions to ten icons means
that your icons are without doubt different in intent to those being
used at that time by the BBC.
for instance as I mentioned, "cloudy" text has been represented by
both a black cloud, and a white one in the last 24 hours for London.
the feeds don't contain the texxt information that differentiates,
though by changing the text systematically this could easily be
achieved.
Kathryn Schmitt is to investigate....
regards
Jonathan Chetwynd
On 25 Jul 2007, at 10:21, Richard Lockwood wrote:
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
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