Re: [backstage] BBC site statistics
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 boxes, but the whole transcript of the OJ Simpson trial has been clever hidden in there! -K - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Location IDs for weather feed
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 pull the weather feed. I suppose that since there are only 7379 feeds I could parse through them and try to pull the data out, but I'm guessing the bbc wouldn't be particularly thrilled with me doing this. Many thanks, Allan yes: Matthew Somerville [EMAIL PROTECTED] reply-tobackstage@lists.bbc.co.uk to backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk dateOct 20, 2006 10:07 AM subject Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy! mailed-by lists.bbc.co.uk Michael Ferenduros wrote: Feeds listed by country/place: http://mike260.dyndns.org/~mikef/countries.opml The server will come and go, so if someone wants to provide a more stable home for it, be my guest. I'll do that for you, if you like: http://www.dracos.co.uk/play/bbc-weather/countries.opml ATB, Matthew - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!
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 predefined entity).I wouldn't mention it otherwise, but it causes the parser I'm using to barf. Tarra,Mike-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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Weather feeds
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 system Mr. Metcalfe was working on. Maybe Ian knows? Best, Kass On 9/26/06, Ian Forrester [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Consider yourself slapped. There are no BBC weather feeds at this current moment (to my knowledge), I'm sorry to say. People tend to use Weather.com for weather data. Cheers, Ian Forrester || backstage.bbc.co.uk From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of James Cox Sent: 26 September 2006 05:44 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Weather feeds All, Slap me down for not searching, but does anyone know of the location of (if any) beeb weather feeds exist? some kind of 'quick forecast for a region' kind of thing? i guess since it's metoffice data that probably isn't going to happen, but just had to ask... best, james -- James Cox, Internet Consultant t: 07968 349990 e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] w: http://www.imajes.info/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] hedging the weather
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 the Met Office. They are keen to improve their quality control processes in response to this. Thanks, Kass On 9/25/06, Jonathan Chetwynd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hedging the weather barcamplondon featured weather averaging for four major suppliers. I queried the sense of this given the BBC's approach... for instance today in London the (day) forecast is light rain shower that's half the rays of sun, plus a dark cloud with one rain drop. already pretty vague you might surmise... However when you switch to the 24 hour forecast the 3 hourly forecast throughout the day is Sunny throughout the day, with clear morning and evening. given the vast expense of weather forecasting, this cannot be said to qualify as science, it doesn't even pretend to scientism or scientistic tendencies, more like pure guesswork of a pretty vague and less than helpful sort? cheers Jonathan Chetwynd - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] yesterday's weather forecast?
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 PROTECTED] wrote: yesterday's weather forecast? http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=3219 currently showing a forecast for Wednesday. can anyone top this? Maybe Reading time zone is a day ahead of London which appears to be celebrating Thursday? cheers Jonathan Chetwynd - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] MetaWeather: Weather Mashup
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 actual location. The BBC gets current observation data from the Met Office every 3 hours from 2AM. best, Kass - 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/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
