Wikidata:Property proposal/Meteorological Service of Canada climate ID

Meteorological Service of Canada climate site ID edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Natural science

Done: Meteorological Service of Canada climate site ID (P6242) (Talk and documentation)

Description	The climate ID is a 7 digit number assigned by the Meteorological Service of Canada to a site where official weather observations are taken, and serves as a permanent, unique identifier.
Represents	Meteorological Service of Canada climate ID (Q59503997)
Data type	External identifier
Domain	weather station (Q190107)
Allowed values	[1-9]\d{6}
Example 1	Active Pass (Q59495897) → 7060400
Example 2	Isachsen (Aut) (Q60059365) → 2402600
Example 3	Alert (Q501744) → 2400306
Source	List of all sites
Planned use	Insert weather station items into Wikidata to allow external climate databases to be queried for climate data, adding further information to a Wikidata query. This can be useful for automatically generating climate data for a city by finding the nearest weather station, then fetching external climate data for that closest weather station.
Number of IDs in source	8750
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)
Country	Canada (Q16)
See also	Bureau of Meteorology station ID (P3796), WIGOS station ID (P4136)

Motivation edit

The Meteorological Service of Canada climate ID is used by the MSC to uniquely identify weather stations within Canada where official weather observations are taken, and serves as a permanent, unique identifier. By creating a new Wikidata item for each weather station within Canada, it becomes possible to query Wikidata for the weather station(s) closest to a particular city, obtain the MSC station number(s) and then query external MSC climate information databases to obtain real time, near real time and/or historical climate data recorded by the particular station. The MSC climate ID number also allows external lookup of MSC station information documents which provide highly detailed information about data capture configuration, instruments installed, periods of record capture, etc. for each Canadian station. Dirac (talk) 19:29, 6 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

Support. Andy Mabbett (Pigsonthewing); Talk to Andy; Andy's edits 20:51, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Support Simon Villeneuve (talk) 21:41, 12 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

@Dirac, Simon Villeneuve, Pigsonthewing: Done: Meteorological Service of Canada climate site ID (P6242). − Pintoch (talk) 07:49, 14 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]