[X4U] Non-US cities, countries in Weather Widget in Dashboard?

[Mike Panas]

YOu might try entering your Austin zip code. That's what I use to get  
my local weather (very small town in CA).
Mike

On May 4, 2005, at 9:08 PM, John Bryan wrote:

> Thanks.  I had tried doing something close to that before, but  
> didn't do it right.
>
> Using what you describe I got it to go like this :
>
> First had used the world-:region->country->city method which gave a  
> url ending in :   zipcode=AS;CI;BEIJING;
> Tried plugging that whole "AS;CI;BEIJING;" string into the widget,  
> hit return to get it to verify, and it found no cities;
>
> went back to accuweather.com and just entered city of Beijing, and  
> it gave :  zipcode=BEIJING
> plugged that into the widget, but this time hit return to let it  
> validate, and it comes up with Beijing, China, click Done and we've  
> got weather!!  Raining btw.
>
> Tried Changsha in accuweather same way.  Widget comes back with  
> different variations of spelling and location and I pick the right  
> one.
>
> Great !  So now I can get other non-US cities, but I STILL can't  
> get the dang thing to take my actual home city of Austin, TX as  
> default, it must be coming up with Austin, MN, one of 8 Austins the  
> validate returns.
>
> sigh...
>
> ok, making progress...thanks much for the help.
>
>
> On May 04, 2005, at 10:51 PM, Mike Panas wrote:
>
>
>> There was an entry yesterday about going to accuweather->world- 
>> >choose a city-> note the designation following "zipcode" near the  
>> end of the url-> copy that "zipcode"->paste it into the widget's  
>> location field and click "done." It'll "validate," then give you  
>> the weather. I checked the weather in Athens yesterday by this  
>> method. I've also seen posts saying to just enter the city name  
>> and country in the location space and that woks too, but I haven't  
>> tried that. Of course, you must first click on the "i" at the  
>> bottom right corner o the widget to flip it over and expose the  
>> location entry field.
>> mike
>> On May 4, 2005, at 7:50 PM, John Bryan wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> Hey, has anyone figured out how to get the weather widget in  
>>> Dashboard to take non-US cities/countries ?
>>>
>>> accuweather.com does provide the information, but looks like  
>>> Dashboard's weather widget only groks US cities.
>>>
>>> I found a plist file "~/library/preferences/widget- 
>>> com.apple.widget.weather.plist" but it is binary, although I can  
>>> find the strings for the city names I already have.  I was going  
>>> to see if I could hack the plist to manually enter the non-US  
>>> city info such that it would get it to accuweather.com, but no  
>>> such luck, apparently.  At least not yet.
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> jb
>>>
>>>
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