* Dave Perry -- Sunday 25 February 2007:
> On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 13:04 +0100, Melchior FRANZ wrote:
> >     $ fgfs `metar -e 183 -c "LOWL 161500Z 19004KT 160V240 ..."`
> > 
> >     Note that you need to specify the elevation, or the cloud
> >     layers are placed wrongly (ASL rather than AGL).
> How do you get the updating weather to apply the elevation correction?

That's done by fgfs, which has easy access to the airport database.
metar doesn't. It's meant to be a simple test app for the METAR
parser and a way to output weather data on the console. DB lookup
is beyond its scope. If a lot of people use it that way, then one
could, of course, think about adding it.

m.

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