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MSC Open Data documentation / Documentation des données ouvertes du SMC:
https://eccc-msc.github.io/open-data/
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Duplication in city forcasts #32

Open radzhome opened 1 year ago

radzhome commented 1 year ago

I realized that for ottawa there are two unique city codes (weather locations):

    ['Ottawa', 'ON', 's0000430'],  # s0000623, s0000430 both are Ottawa - could split up
    ['Ottawa2', 'ON', 's0000623'],  # both use the airport as the weather station and thus have same forecast

Any reason why this is broken into two locations? the forecast is the same since it indicates indeed it comes from the same weather station.

Could this not be merged into a single location i.e. Ottawa (Richmond - Metcalfe - Kanata - Orléans ) ?

Breaking up into north and south not sure if it makes any sense if the data is same as it uses the same weather station.

edouardsandrine commented 1 year ago

You are right... It's just for "human" consumption.. not the best answer I agree ! There's a couple other double city pages too. Sudbury and Greater Sudbury are the same page, just some people call it Sudbury and some insist it is Greater Sudbury. When we move to the 10k locations the WeatherCAN app currently uses, hopefully most of these duplicates you see on the web site will be removed and the Natural Resources Canada "Official" location name will be used.