Bug 139221 - Add geographic coordinates for key cities in Finland
Summary: Add geographic coordinates for key cities in Finland
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: kstars
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Ubuntu Linux
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Assignee: kstars
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Reported: 2006-12-25 21:44 UTC by Lars Noodén
Modified: 2008-12-16 21:27 UTC (History)
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Description Lars Noodén 2006-12-25 21:44:46 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.5)
Installed from:    Ubuntu Packages
OS:                Linux

Please add these cities

Rovaniemi, Finland	66.29N	25.41E
Åbo/Turku, Finland	60.30N	22.19E
Tammerfors/Tampere, Finland	61.30N	23.50E
Oulu, Finland	65.01N	25.29E
Helsingfors/Helsinki, Finland	60.15N	25.03E
Tornio, Finland	65.50N	24.12E
source: http://www.mapsofworld.com/lat_long/finland-lat-long.html

And Tromsø, Norway at 69°40′N 18°56E
Comment 1 kstars 2007-03-21 01:35:04 UTC
I have a question about Åbo/Turku and Tammerfors/Tampere: do these names indicate two alternate names for these cities, or are they each the full name of the city?  If you have given two names for each city, can you advise me which name I should use in the database?  
Comment 2 Lars Noodén 2007-03-21 08:46:49 UTC
These are two names for the cities.  The former is the original name in Swedish.  The latter is the subsequent fennicization (sp).  

The Finnish cities were all founded under Swedish rule and Swedish is still an official language.  

Oulu is also called Uleåborg.  

Tromsø is also called Romsa in the other official language there, N Sámi.  Further north, the territory was Finnish.

I'm not up enough on politics to sort this one out.  A guess would be to use Rovaniemi, Turku, Tampere, Oulu, Helsinki, Tornio, and Tromsø and see who hollers.
Comment 3 Akarsh Simha 2008-12-16 19:10:09 UTC
Would help if you could tell me what DST rules for these cities are. I've been unable to Google them out. Currently, I'll leave them without DST prespecified.
Comment 4 Lars Noodén 2008-12-16 19:30:42 UTC
Tromsø has the same rules as for Oslo.

The Finnish cities (Rovaniemi, Turku, Tampere, Oulu, Helsinki, Tornio) have the same rules as for Helsinki.
Comment 5 Akarsh Simha 2008-12-16 21:27:31 UTC
SVN commit 897786 by asimha:

+ Adding / Updating coordinates of cities in Finland / Norway.

Many of our city latitudes / longitudes seem to suffer from a Degree
(decimal) to DMS conversion error. I think the best solution for this
is to wait till we move to MarbleWidget.

BUG: 139221
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