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   1 wmo_to_wikidata - Import World Meteorological Organization weather stations
   2                   metadata into Wikidata.
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   4 Repository: https://git.choffet.net/?p=wmo_to_wikidata.git
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   7 This repository contains a set of scripts that download, clean, verify, compare
   8 WMO stations metadata before importing it into Wikidata as needed.
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  10 The original source code in this repository is sponsored by Wkimedia Canada.
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  12 The following tools are required as dependencies - they should be available
  13 prepackaged for most GNU/Linux distros.
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  15   - Bash - https://www.gnu.org/software/bash/
  16     Shell script interpreter
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  18   - Curl - https://curl.se/
  19     Download WMO data.
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  21   - Xmlstarlet - http://xmlstar.sourceforge.net/
  22     XSD and XSLT processor.
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  24   - Yq - https://kislyuk.github.io/yq/
  25     Jq wrapper to convert WMO JSON into XML.
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  28 The repositories contains the following tools:
  29   - update.sh
  30     Ensure WMO stations cache is up to date, convert original JSON into XML,
  31     clean, validate data and generate a new valid WDEF file.