Missing documentation: Weather symbols

[kosmoz]

Hi,

I was not able to find official documentation on the weather symbols returned by the API for the sy parameter. Do they correspond to the ones described here (mapped by the number in the file name of each picture)?

[dlang-geosphereat]

Hi @kosmoz ,

thank you for the feedback. The descriptions of the symbols are part of the dataset's metadata, however, our current interface is common across all datasets, which makes it difficult to provide parameter-specific metadata that exceeds information such as units/descriptions. We are currently working on a way to better provide this information.

As for the mapping, there are these (German only) descriptions for the codes:

Icon ID	Description
1	Wolkenlos
2	Heiter
3	Wolkig
4	Stark bewölkt
5	Bedeckt
6	Bodennebel
7	Hochnebel
8	Leichter Regen
9	Mäßiger Regen
10	Starker Regen
11	Schneeregen
12	Schneeregen
13	Schneeregen
14	Leichter Schneefall
15	Mäßiger Schneefall
16	Starker Schneefall
17	Regenschauer
18	Regenschauer
19	Starker Regenschauer
20	Schneeregenschauer
21	Schneeregenschauer
22	Schneeregenschauer
23	Schneeschauer
24	Schneeschauer
25	Starker Schneeschauer
26	Gewitter
27	Gewitter
28	Starkes Gewitter
29	Gewitter mit Schneeregen
30	Starkes Gewitter mit Schneeregen
31	Gewitter mit Schneefall
32	Starkes Gewitter mit Schneefall

As far as I know, we do currently not have official English translations (it should be fairly trivial to do this with Google Translate or similar, even if you don't know German). Also, I am aware that some descriptions such as "Gewitter" have two existing codes (26 and 27). I'll try to clarify this with data producers.

For the icons themselves, we currently do not provide an official icon set. We might provide some in the future, but I do not have information on this. Probably you will want to use icons that fit the design of your app anyway.

[oe4dns]

Thank you, yery helpful

Danke!

[PhilippKolmann]

@dlang-geosphereat have you had any chance to get some more information about the duplicates (Schneeregen 11-13, Regenschauer 17-18, Schneeregenschauer 20-22, Schneeschauer 23-24), english translations and icons?

thanks