RE: [backstage] who to ask: SVG in weather feeds?
Hello there, 'Tis I. We don't have any SVG icons. Do you mean the gif images of weather symbols used on the 5 day forecast pages? Feel free to contact me off list with your answer...I doubt this conversation is of general interest to the list. As for the descrepancy between symbols and labels on the feed, I will investigate. Best, Kass Kathryn Schmitt Senior Developer BBC Weather Centre 2026 Television Centre T: 020 82259448 M: 0771 7582482 www.bbc.co.uk/weather www.bbc.co.uk/climate -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ~:'' Sent: 25 July 2007 10:03 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] who to ask: SVG in weather feeds? SVG weather feeds: who to ask? Who at the BBC publishes the weather feeds? Is there a good reason the SVG icons are not linked within the feed? regards Jonathan Chetwynd - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Coders needed for BBC Weather New Media
Apologies again for that. As Jason rightly points out, the jobs website has been outsourced, and is not indicative of the way we like to do things. I will continue to feed these problems back to the people who might be able to do something about it. In the meantime, if anyone *is* interested in learning more about the jobs going in my team you can do so by searching for job reference numbers 727187 and 727190. The link to search is under CURRENT JOBS in the left hand nav. The closing date is midnight, but if you are interested in either position and can't finish the application form in time then please drop me a line. Thanks, Kass Kathryn Schmitt Senior Developer BBC Weather Centre 2026 Television Centre T: 020 82259448 M: 0771 7582482 www.bbc.co.uk/weather www.bbc.co.uk/climate From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Otu Ekanem Sent: 28 February 2007 09:25 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: Re: [backstage] Coders needed for BBC Weather New Media Again Faulty URLS. Me thinks your http://jobs.bbc.co.uk guy/gal should have a read at this. http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blog/welldesignedurlsarebeautiful/ I know ASP doesn't lend itself to composing beautiful URL but there are many a solutions for working around this. On 2/27/07, Kathryn Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry, I seem to have messed up with the tinyurls I gave in my previous post. Here are the links in their gory splendour: https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc01.asp?s=HqSpVAxKiZLqNnZifjobid=13564, 2395596535key=1658236c=653525135614pagestamp=sehoeqelevzzvayuna https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc01.asp?s=HqSpVAxKiZLqNnZifjobid=13564 ,2395596535key=1658236c=653525135614pagestamp=sehoeqelevzzvayuna https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc01.asp?s=EnPmSXuHfWInKkWfcjobid=13563, 3448980234key=1658236c=653525135614pagestamp=seyhulndvpljmxynbh https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc01.asp?s=EnPmSXuHfWInKkWfcjobid=13563 ,3448980234key=1658236c=653525135614pagestamp=seyhulndvpljmxynbh Kathryn Schmitt Senior Developer BBC Weather Centre 2026 Television Centre T: 020 82259448 M: 0771 7582482 www.bbc.co.uk/weather www.bbc.co.uk/climate -- Otu Ekanem (web) http://www.ekanem.de (talk) http://twitter.com/io2 (pics) http://flickr.com/people/doubleoh2 +44. 793. 959. 5637
[backstage] Coders needed for BBC Weather New Media
Hi all, I just thought I'd mention that there are 2 jobs going in my team. One is for a Client-side coder (continuing contract), and the other is for a server-side coder (6 month contract initially). The closing date for both positions is tomorrow, 28th Feb (as in, 23:59). You can learn more about these positions on the following pages: http://tinyurl.com/3brsmd http://tinyurl.com/yuweyq And I am happy to answer quick questions via email. Mail me directly please. Thanks, Kass Kathryn Schmitt Senior Developer BBC Weather Centre 2026 Television Centre T: 020 82259448 M: 0771 7582482 www.bbc.co.uk/weather www.bbc.co.uk/climate - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
[backstage] Coders needed for BBC Weather New Media
Sorry, I seem to have messed up with the tinyurls I gave in my previous post. Here are the links in their gory splendour: https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc01.asp?s=HqSpVAxKiZLqNnZifjobid=13564, 2395596535key=1658236c=653525135614pagestamp=sehoeqelevzzvayuna https://jobs.bbc.co.uk/fe/tpl_bbc01.asp?s=EnPmSXuHfWInKkWfcjobid=13563, 3448980234key=1658236c=653525135614pagestamp=seyhulndvpljmxynbh Kathryn Schmitt Senior Developer BBC Weather Centre 2026 Television Centre T: 020 82259448 M: 0771 7582482 www.bbc.co.uk/weather www.bbc.co.uk/climate
RE: [backstage] Weather data...not weather description
Hello Mark and backstagers, I agree that one shouldn't have to parse the weather data out of the comments. As I mentioned in my initial announcement of the weather feeds, additional semantic mark-up is on our list of things to add to the feeds. It was not in the first release because a) any namespaces used in feeds published on BBC sites have to be approved and b) I couldn't find a suitable namespace to use. I have looked at both Yahoo!'s weather extensions and the National Weather Service's, but found them both too specific to the U.S.A. In looking around on the web I have found a few discussions of possible weather namespaces, but nothing I could grab and use. If any of you have any suggestions then please let me know. In the meantime my apologies for the suboptimal solution...but I reckoned it was better than nothing. Best, Kass Kathryn Schmitt Senior Developer BBC Weather Centre 2026 Television Centre T: 020 82259448 M: 0771 7582482 www.bbc.co.uk/weather www.bbc.co.uk/climate -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Birbeck Sent: 02 November 2006 16:05 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Weather data...not weather description Hi all, I tried posting to the relevant blog entry, but couldn't get it through. Anyway, the RSS weather feeds nicely contain the long/lat values as separate elements, but unfortunately they merge all of the actual weather data into a simple text comment. It's not very useful for reusing in other places--if you want to float a raincloud or smiley sun icon over a Google Map (for example) you have to first parse the text, which is kind of annoying. [I see that in the time it's taken me to get this message onto the list, a thread has started about how to parse the description. We really shouldn't be having to do this. :) ] Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck CEO x-port.net Ltd. e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] t: +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 w: http://www.formsPlayer.com/ b: http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/ Download our XForms processor from http://www.formsPlayer.com/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Weather conditions?
Hi John, The complete list of weather conditions that appear on the BBC Weather site is as follows: [desc] 'clear' 'sunny' 'partly cloudy' 'sunny intervals' 'dust storm' 'misty' 'foggy' 'cloudy' 'light showers' 'drizzle' 'light rain' 'heavy showers' 'heavy rain' 'sleet showers' 'sleet' 'hail showers' 'hail' 'light snow showers' 'light snow' 'heavy snow showers' 'heavy snow' 'thundery showers' 'thunderstorm' 'tropical storm' [/desc] Best, Kass Kathryn Schmitt Senior Developer BBC Weather Centre 2026 Television Centre T: 020 82259448 M: 0771 7582482 www.bbc.co.uk/weather www.bbc.co.uk/climate -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Wards Sent: 01 November 2006 16:27 To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk Subject: [backstage] Weather conditions? The question isam I missing any? This is more a question to the backstage team I suppose... - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
RE: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!
Yes, good idea. I'll see what I can do.
Best,
Kass
Kathryn Schmitt
Senior Developer
BBC Weather Centre
2026 Television Centre
T: 020 82259448
M: 0771 7582482
www.bbc.co.uk/weather
www.bbc.co.uk/climate
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Pritchard
Sent: 18 October 2006 19:40
To: backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk
Subject: Re: [backstage] Official BBC Weather feeds ahoy!
what would be useful would be some sort of listing of all areas, such as
an opml file. I don't fancy manually finding out what each of the 7379
feeds correspond to
On 18/10/06, Kathryn Schmitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Greetings Backstagers,
I am very pleased to inform you that BBC Weather's first RSS
feeds are now live. Links to them can be found on all 5 day forecast
pages: http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml
http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/5day.shtml
The feeds are located at
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/{world|id}/{location_id}.xml
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/%7Bworld%7Cid%7D/%7Blocation_i
d%7D.xml
E.g. http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/id/2315.xml
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/id/2315.xml and
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/4567.xml
http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/weather/feeds/rss/5day/world/4567.xml
All of the 7379 feeds are updated at least* twice a day (at
approximately 8AM/PM *GMT*).
We are planning more feeds, and improvements to these ones as
well (e.g. dynamic generation of feeds, which will allow us to offer
different flavours such as Atom; additional content such as tide times
and current observations (Met Office willing); additional semantic
mark-up).
In the meantime we look forward to seeing your BBC Weather
widgets in the Backstage Widgets Compo:
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/10/widgets_competi.html
http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/news/archives/2006/10/widgets_competi.html
I have included geo:lat/long tags in all entries to facilitate
mappy mashups. Enjoy!
I look forward to hearing your comments, concerns and ideas.
Best,
Kass
Kathryn Schmitt
Senior Developer
BBC Weather Centre
2026 Television Centre
T: 020 82259448
M: 0771 7582482
www.bbc.co.uk/weather
www.bbc.co.uk/climate
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