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WIGOS station identifier (WSI)

ID wigos_station_id

DatatypeNot PIIidentifierDraft

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Identifier of an observing station in the WMO Integrated Global Observing System. It has four blocks separated by hyphens: the identifier series (only 0 is defined), the issuer of identifier and the issue number (each 0 to 65534, without leading zeros) and a local identifier of up to 16 characters. Stations that already had a WMO index number IIiii received the identifier 0-20000-0-IIiii.

Categories
Environment, Geographic identifiers
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
Common to most languages
Wikidata
P4136
Quality
85/100 · missing: translation, detector coverage
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
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Regular expression

^0-(?:0|[1-9]\d{0,3}|[1-5]\d{4}|6[0-4]\d{3}|65[0-4]\d{2}|655[0-2]\d|6553[0-4])-(?:0|[1-9]\d{0,3}|[1-5]\d{4}|6[0-4]\d{3}|65[0-4]\d{2}|655[0-2]\d|6553[0-4])-[0-9A-Za-z._-]{1,16}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

ValueDescription
0-20000-0-74492Blue Hill Observatory, an example of Wikidata P4136
0-20008-0-JFJJungfraujoch station of the Global Atmosphere Watch
0-020000-0-74492 invalidThe issuer of identifier has a leading zero

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