On Monday 25 of January 2021 14:26:11 deloptes wrote:
Slávek Banko via tde-users wrote:
Thanks to that, I noticed that for some station names there are identical names for more stations - I saw it, for example, in Canada / Yukon - 2 × Dawson, 2 × Tuktoyaktuk. Other stations with the same name can be found in other regions. Maybe there would be a good idea to add some identification to the name, which station is which.
Hi, the case with Yukon - these are two different station ids with similar coordinates
CWON;--;---;Dawson Automatic Weather Reporting System ;;Canada;4;64-03N;139-09W;;;370;; CYDA;71;966;Dawson, Y. T.;;Canada;4;64-03N;139-08W;;;370;370;P
I removed "Automatic Weather Reporting System" from everywhere I found it in station_names.txt - this lead to duplicated names :/ . May be "Automatic Weather Reporting System" should be replaced with AWRS so that it distinguishes from the other
Same for Tuktoyaktuk
CYUB;71;954;Tuktoyaktuk ;;Canada;4;69-27N;133-01W;69-27N;133-01W;5;5; CZUB;71;985;Tuktoyaktuk Automated Reporting Station ;;Canada;4;69-26N;133-02W;;;6;;
But my assessment was that it would not make a big difference if you pick one or the other station anyway ____________________________________________________
Yes, I assume that both stations will provide the same or very similar data. It just seems a little confusing there when the same name is listed repeatedly and there's no way to know which station is really meant. That's why it seemed like a good idea to differentiate the station names in some way. To make the name not much longer, we can add a short "(A)", for example.
Cheers