-----Original Message----- From: Paul Daniel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2007 17:35 To: '~:'' ????????????' Subject: RE: who to ask? weather feeds: why is the "explanation of the symbols" not used consistently
Until I looked at its equivalent, I could not work out whether number 4 in the animated set was meant to be "Sandstorm" or "Baking hot day" . I have never experienced the former and I am beginning to doubt that I will ever again experience the latter. I am beginning to build up a wish list of symbols: Instead of "CLEAR" for clear at night why not have the man in the moon. Instead of the sun for a sunny day why not have a pig with wings. And what happens when it is sunny and rains? A rainbow! Please, pretty please. Paul Daniel -----Original Message----- From: ~:'' ???????????? [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 25 July 2007 16:16 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Cc: Paul Daniel Subject: who to ask? weather feeds: why is the "explanation of the symbols" not used consistently Paul, that's excellent thanks, I make it 18 commonly known and distinct icons. there is a fair amount of duplication not sure why this might be 2.gif and 7.gif for instance. perhaps they have different alpha transparencies? the one I missed is 28/30.gif which shares the same text description as 29.gif thundery shower. following the scheme for other weather systems the one without the sun isn't a shower? It's clear that making absolute rules about relations between text and graphics is complex. heavy thunder might easily smack of neo-nazi sympathies, yet there have been some rather heavy ones recently in our area. hopefully the BBC will address these few small exceptions. best wishes Jonathan Chetwynd On 25 Jul 2007, at 14:53, Paul Daniel wrote: There are 32 images in this set: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/images/symbols/fiveday_sym/32.gif and in this set: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/images/symbols/animated_sym/4.gif Paul Daniel -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Richard Lockwood Sent: 25 July 2007 10:22 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] who to ask? weather feeds: why is the "explanation of the symbols" not used consistently The explanation on the symbols page is poor, but the actual text in the feed is pretty consistant. I've only needed to match ten phrases to smbols since I wrote my weather map on the 1st of June. (Admittedly, most of those are variants on "pi**ing down"... but I digress.) So, I match the phrases to these icons like so... "sunny intervals" = "icons/3_sunny_int.png"; "heavy showers" = "icons/14_heavy_rain.png"; "light rain" = "icons/10_light_rain.png"; "sunny" = "icons/1_sunny_day.png"; "cloudy" = "icons/8_black_lev_cloud.png"; "light showers" = "icons/10_light_rain.png"; "heavy rain" = "icons/13_heavy_rain_showers.png"; "thunderstorm" = "icons/29_thundery_shower.png"; "thundery showers" = "icons/29_thundery_shower.png"; "drizzle" = "icons/9_light_rain_driz.png"; And yes - I'm well aware that the BBC only seems to recognise one kind of thunder when it comes to icons, but see fit to differentiate between thunderstorms and thundery showers in text. I was worried when I started the project that I'd need to pick up sunny intervals, sunny spells, sunny periods, sunny breaks etc. It seems not. Map at: www.sdldev.co.uk/weather/map.asp Cheers, Rich. On 7/25/07, ~:'' ???????????? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > who to ask? weather feeds: why is the "explanation of the symbols" > not used consistently" > > Who at the BBC publishes the weather feeds? > > why is it that the text description and images are not consistent? > in other words, why is the "explanation of the symbols" not used > consistently? > > London today forecast text is "cloudy" as it was in yesterday's > forecast for today. > > whereas the graphic yesterday was "partly cloudy" > today it is "black low level cloud" > > because the text and graphic are not related consistently as per the > explanation of symbols it seems virtually impossible to use the feed > accurately. > > regards > > Jonathan Chetwynd > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/bbcweather/features/symbols.shtml > http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/0008.xml > http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml?id=0008 > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. 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