On 30/08/2006, at 5:49 AM, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > On Mon, 2006-08-14 at 15:33 +0930, Clytie Siddall wrote: >> >> I'm updating gnome-applets, and checking my translation against the >> file quoted [1]. >> >> Using the information recorded for Sài Gòn (a.k.a T.P. Hồ Chí >> Minh): >> >>> <location> >>> <_name>Ho Chi Minh</_name> >>> <code>VVTS</code> >>> <coordinates>10-49N 106-40E</coordinates> >>> </location> >> >> the lat. and long, are fine, but how do I fill in: >> >> "A three-digit-long code for retrieving radar maps from weather.com" >> >> and >> >> "A unique zone for the city" >> >> ? >> >> Is "VVTS" the "three-digit code"? And what is the zone? > > Hi Clytie, > the <code></code> is the ICAO Location Indicator for the airport, and > it's four letters long. For the full list, see > http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/metar.shtml > Each airport has a ICAO code, and each airport needs to submit their > current weather data so that they are available to the aviation > industry. GNOME Applets simply uses that information to display the > weather of the nearby city (assuming the airport is near the city). > > The "radar" from weather.com, AFAIK, works only for US and Canada, > therefore for other countries it is not used. > > Hope this helps,
Yes, thanks, Simos. Unfortunately, the gnome-applets-locations PO file simply refers you to the file I quoted. If the information isn't there, it is confusing. from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do) http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
