Re: [backstage] BBC site statistics

2007-03-26 Thread K Schmitt
On 3/26/07, Brendan Quinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pre-recorded subtitling works differently, obviously -- they can take time to pause the playout and get it right. Most of these subtitlers are ex-courtroom steganographers. /giggles this may LOOK like just a gallery of cute kittens in

Re: [backstage] Location IDs for weather feed

2006-11-26 Thread K Schmitt
On 11/26/06, Allan Jardine [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know if there is a location to loction id conversation table available for the weather feed? For example, if I knew the location was Edinburgh, a look up would tell me that the location ID was 1808 - from which I could

Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!

2006-10-24 Thread K Schmitt
doh! sorry. I'll fix that...but possibly not until I return from my holiday (unless I'm really bored).Best,KassOn 10/24/06, Michael Ferenduros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello,Pedantic bug-report:There's an 'eacute;' in world/4026.xml that I don't _think_ is valid XML(because eacute isn't a

Re: [backstage] Weather feeds

2006-09-26 Thread K Schmitt
There will be atom feeds containing day 1 of the five day forecast for all locations available on the bbc weather site very soon (where very soon 2 weeks). This is what the Met Office have agreed to without a developer key system in place. I'm not sure what has happened to the developer key

Re: [backstage] hedging the weather

2006-09-25 Thread K Schmitt
Hello, As the senior developer on the BBC Weather site, I'd like to point out that the weather data displayed on the site is supplied by the Met Office, and not the BBC. We have been monitoring the sorts of discrepencies you mention between the 5day and 24 forecasts, and feeding them back to

Re: [backstage] yesterday's weather forecast?

2006-08-24 Thread K Schmitt
ha ha ha. Or maybe the update of the data files for the London forecast made it to the webservers and the one for Reading (and, I suspect, some other places) didn't? Boring explanation, I know. Look's like you need a shave there, Occam! Best, K On 8/24/06, Jonathan Chetwynd [EMAIL

Re: [backstage] MetaWeather: Weather Mashup

2006-01-04 Thread K Schmitt
On 1/4/06, Murray Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I believe (but I really don't know) that these come automatically from the nearest automated weather station. The location of which is further down the page, along with capture time. Plug the long/lat into multimap or similar to get the