Weather Applet needs more cities...

[23meg]

Filing a bug won't force them to build more weather stations.

Certainly, and neither will posting to forums. However, filing a bug report can get help get in existing weather stations that aren't available in the list.

to share opinions and maybe get some background on how it works.

Sure, but I've never seen threads with titles in the form of "$SOFTWARE needs $FEATURE" produce any outcome on their own when posted to support and user discussion forums, but filing a good bug report in the upstream bug tracker or contacting the relevant people who can actually do something about it with plans (or better, patches) can.

[Saya]

The weather applet lists a tiny airport some 10km away from me. So far it has never given me any kind of data at all, so I'm using one 100km away instead.

[elamericano]

It uses the National Weather Service for domestic data, and I don't see the city I want here:

http://www.weather.gov/data/current_...k.php?state=ca

So, I guess I shouldn't bother the good folks at Gnome, since their source isn't providing it.

[colorcol]

should?
ah o ,maybe you should get the weather from TV!

[popch]

Is it possible to add your own weather station if you know its address?

[fjf]

The screenlet clearweather can show Derby.

[frankO]

Is it possible to add your own weather station if you know its address?

The files that have the city information are
/usr/share/libgweather/Locations.xml
/usr/share/libgweather/locations.dtd

I don't know how you can read them though.

[Excedio]

Ummm...thread's last post is over a year old.

[grege]

@frankO

The last post was a year ago, but seeing as you have restarted it and live nearby (I am in Eltham) I have a question.

Are you getting the Melbourne forecast? it has stopped for me. I just get "Forecast not currently available for this location"

I know the data is still there and available because I can get it other ways.

[philinux]

2 years old!!