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BUILDMETARDB

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

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