Custom gnome-panel location w/ weather?

[Perturbed Penguin]

When you add a location to the 'locations' tab under the gnome-clock is there a way to setup a custom location which includes weather information? I ask because my hometown(actually my old hometown, but same point) does not show up when you search for it. I would really like to add it mostly as a quick-check for weather. I could just use a location nearby but it wouldn't have the exactly correct weather and frankly it wouldn't be home. ;)

Also who would I want to talk to if I wanted to ask for my city to be included in the search list? And just out of curiosity where does this applet get its weather info from?

Thanks in advance!

[Perturbed Penguin]

Ok, let me be more precise, that way maybe I can find some help. Bozeman, MT, USA is a preset location in the gnome-clock applet, you can begin typing it in and it comes up as a preset which has weather data and everything else. This is great but can't we add more locations as presets? For example I would like to see Boulder, CO, USA added as a location preset in the gnome-clock applet and I would like to see it done by the time Lucid comes out because this is something that should be easy to add. I am certain there are many other locations around the world that are missing presets w/ weather data in this applet.

I would love to help out in this regard but I don't have any idea who to even talk to about this, do I talk to the Gnome devs or to the Ubuntu devs or someone else entirely? Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated... also if you know of a town/city that doesn't come up when searched for in this applet feel free to let me know on this thread - so long as I can get in contact with someone I will try and add it! Thanks in advance! ;)

[Perturbed Penguin]

Fabulous someone added Boulder, CO as a location for the applet. Thank you to whoever took care of that, even if it wasn't because you read this post!

[x-shaney-x]

Lucky you, they removed my location (Sheffield, United Kingdom) :(

For future reference though. You can google the longitude/latitude codes for your location and enter them manually. It's how I did it this time around.

[rezakhs]

Sheffield is the 5th largest city in the UK. It must not be a city that needs being added manually. And for a end-user, Leeds is NOT Sheffield (even if they use the same forecast station).

[hok00age]

Visit:
http://www.getlatlon.com/

[Perturbed Penguin]

Dang, sorry to hear your home no longer exists! I know that I can look up the lat and long but that, as far as I'm aware, will not give you any weather info for your location which is really what I was looking for. For weather your location has to be known to the applet... I think. As stated before I would love to know who actually manages this sort of thing and if I knew I'd tell you but I have no idea! Hope your home gets re-added soon, good luck!

[x-shaney-x]

It DOES display the weather if you enter the lat/lon manually.
I have used a weather site as well as the site posted above.

Presumably it just chooses the nearest weather station to that location.

[Perturbed Penguin]

Really?! Well that is news to me, I stand corrected. That is kind of cool that it can do that.