NAME¶

buildMetarDB - build databases for METAR stations

SYNOPSIS¶

buildMetarDB -l|-a [options]

DESCRIPTION¶

This script downloads, saves and processes the textfiles needed for building the databases to enable searching for METAR stations.

You can download the locations, which is a database of about 12000 world-wide locations, which can be used to determine the coordinates of your city or you can download a file with 6500 airports providing the metar data. This database is used for the next-METAR-station search. Please see the appropriate documentation in the Services_Weather_Metar class.

OPTIONS¶

-l

build locationsDB

-a

build airportsDB

-f <file>

use <file> as input

-s

save downloaded file to disk

-t <dbtype>

type of the DB to be used

-r <dbprotocol> protocol of the DB to be used

-d <dbname>

name of the DB to be used

-u <dbuser>

user of the DB to be used

-p <dbpass>

pass of the DB to be used

-h <dbhost>

host of the DB to be used

-o <dboptions>

options of the DB to be used in the notation option=value,...

-v

display verbose debugging messages multiple -v increases verbosity