You're welcome. :)
Thanks for the explanation, that orphan cities thing is fubar'd (thanks
NOAA). What a bummer. I can't wait for the day that they get with the
program and offer XML feeds of their data.
-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Finney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, December 06, 2003 12:37 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re:weather feed
>Not as many as the other one, but some of those feeds are not right (wrong
>city/state).
>
>http://weather.boygenius.com/oklahoma-miami_beach.xml
><http://weather.boygenius.com/oklahoma-miami_beach.xml>
>
>I promise you there is no Miami Beach, Oklahoma....I would've already gone
>there, oh well.
Late chiming in, perhaps this is still relevant to someone.
The orphan cities are a consequence of the NOAA date that I'm parsing to
generate the XML files. The NOAA data is stored in files that look like
this:
SOUTHWEST OKLAHOMA
CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKS
CLINTON CLOUDY 21 8 57 N3 30.48F
HOBART CLOUDY 23 10 57 NE9 30.49F WCI 13
The file is called something like 'weather-roundup-ok.txt'. All my script
does is say "ok, we're looking at ok, that's Oklahoma, so take these lines
and put them in files called 'oklahoma-clinton.xml' and
'oklahoma-hobart.xml'.
The problem with this is that the NOAA isn't really strict about state
boundaries in their data. New York City, for example, appears in the New
York file, the Pennsylvania file, the New Jersey file, and (oddly enough)
the Massachusetts and Maine files.
Well, fugly data calls for fugly parsing, so I have this subroutine that
says "If you see New York City, Massachuettts, it's really talking about New
York City, New York." This works fine, except that it requires me to have a
line in my script for every NOAA geographical generalization. Every once
and a while, a new one pops up, and you get things like
oklahoma-miami_beach.xml.
This is noted in the changelog on the site:
"20030902 - I think I have all of the orphan cities taken care of. If you
notice any that I've missed, please tell me."
I'll note that you didn't bother to tell me. Thanks.
Anyhoo, the file you listed above would have contained the correct weather
information for Miami Beach, it would have just had the wrong state name. I
don't consider this to be a big deal, because if you want the weather for
Miami Beach, the place to look is florida-miami_beach.xml.
Todd
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