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Weather Now update

Last night I released Weather Now v5.0.9183, with a few bug fixes including a patch to the Gazetteer that recognizes the UK's four constituent parts (example). I've spent a few evenings the past week and a half fixing everything I could think of in the Gazetteer code, plus integrating with Azure Maps to allow me to correct time zones and parent places.

Then, starting around 5pm yesterday, I re-imported the existing data from fresh sources, including the NCDC update Monday and the FAA update yesterday. And just now I've completed importing all 970,000 USGS names records for the 50 United States plus DC and Puerto Rico. The Gazetteer now has 1.6 million records, and there are still a lot of places to import from the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

If you're curious, you can go to the About the Gazetteer page to see what all I've imported. I plan to start importing the NGIA country files this afternoon, once I've downloaded them.

The Azure Search indexer that populates the full-text search for the application runs every three hours, so most of the USGS records won't show up in the search feature until just after noon US Central time (a bit more than an hour for now).

Also, after lunch, I'll have a Butters update. Spoiler: she sleeps 21 hours a day.

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