Re: mws vs metar data, nsw 1, metar 0
On Wednesday 19 October 2016 08:38:29 Darac Marjal wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 08:01:59AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >On Wednesday 19 October 2016 05:14:46 Darac Marjal wrote:
> >> On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 05:09:05AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >> >On Wednesday 19 October 2016 00:33:29 Peter Ludikovsky wrote:
> >> >> When you visit the URL it's fetching there's a notice that the
> >> >> service is no longer available:
> >> >> "In Accordance with NWS Service Change Notice 16-16 this service
> >> >> has been discontinued."
> >> >>
> >> >> Regards,
> >> >> /peter
> >> >
> >> >And replaced by what?
> >> >
> >> >I did find that quoted phrase in my searching, but not that Change
> >> > Notice 16-16. itself.
> >>
> >> Really? I searched for "NWS Service Change Notice 16-16" (no
> >> quotes) and this
> >> www.nws.noaa.gov/om/notification/scn16-16wngccb.htm was the first
> >> result. It states that weather.gov now supplies all the appropriate
> >> information, so weather.noaa.gov is no longer needed.
> >
> >I khexedited the deamon, found that address string and changed it to
> >http://www.weather.gov. but on a restart, that gives a 404 error
> > about once a minute. I'll go recheck that weather.gov site & see if
> > I can get any schmardter.
>
> There was much ballyhoo a while ago about Debian distributing the
> "preferred modification source" (or words to that effect). The
> argument was, IIRC, to do with "minified" javascript files; that is,
> javascript files which have had all unnecessary whitespace removed so
> that they download a little quicker in the browser. It was argued that
> no-one in their right mind would try to actually work with the
> minified javascript, and that Debian should be distributing the
> original file and converting it to a minified version at "compile
> time".
>
> The same goes for just about all Debian packages: what's in the *.deb
> is not necessarily the "preferred modification source". In the case of
> an executable program, there will be C (or C++ or Perl or Python or
> Ada or ...) source code which is compiled to produce that executable.
> Source code which Debian uses. Source code which Debian DISTRIBUTES
> freely. Source code which you can download yourself, modify yourself,
> compile yourself.
>
> What I'm trying to say is: don't go modifying the executable! Edit the
> source code and recompile it!
>
> And if you want to know what changes to make, gkrellweather already
> has a bug against it (#863347 https://bugs.debian.org/836347) which
> includes a patch fixing the problem.
Excellent, but will it get to the repo's? And I'd assume the
standalone "metar" app will need the same fixing?
> >I found the data for the local, actually under the correct label, but
> > its going to be fun editing that path into that binary. I would
> > assume the KCKB.TXT isn't needed because thats a different, editable
> > entry in the config
> >
> >http://tgftp.nws.noaa.gov/data/observations/metar/stations/KCKB.TXT
> >
> >Editing that into the .so apparently exceeds the string length even
> > if I was over-writing $00's to do it, I now get a segfault and it
> > exits. The deamon however does start ok. I'll reinstall, so at
> > least the rest of gkrellm works.
> >
> >> >But using that phrase, I did find it, and the request for comments
> >> > that was published a few months before, along with some contact
> >> > names, one of which has now been sent a query about its
> >> > replacement.
> >> >
> >> >Thanks Peter.
> >> >
> >> >> Am 19.10.2016 um 05:32 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> >> >> > METAR is a std data format that has been used for many years.
> >> >> > I've been using a gkrellm, with its plugin gk-weather for
> >> >> > about a decade, but I've just become aware that the last time
> >> >> > I got valid METAR data from the airport about 20 miles
> >> >> > northeast of me was on July 28th.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > So as a double-chk, I installed the metar program from the
> >> >> > wheezy repo. It reports:
> >> >> >
> >> >> > gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KCKB
> >> >> > Retrieving URL
> >> >> > http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/K
> >> >> >CKB .TX T METAR pattern not found in NOAA data.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > So I switched to a slightly closer airport in Buchannon wv,
> >> >> > and get the same response.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > gene@sheldon:~$ metar -v KW22
> >> >> > Retrieving URL
> >> >> > http://weather.noaa.gov/pub/data/observations/metar/stations/K
> >> >> >W22 .TX T METAR pattern not found in NOAA data.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Poking around on the NOAA.gov main site, there is no mention
> >> >> > of it being discontinued that is easily searched for.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Anybody have a light to shine on this?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Thanks everybody.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >> >
> >> >Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >> >--
> >> >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> >> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >> >-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> >> >Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
> >
> >Cheers, Gene Heskett
> >--
> >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
> >-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
> >Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
Cheers, Gene Heskett
--
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
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