[aprssig] Snow vs Wind speed clarification

[Alexander Sack]

http://www.aprs.org/aprs11/spec-wx.txt

I don't quite understand you Bob!  :-)

So the original specification lists 's' for both wind speed as well as
snow fall in positionless format.

Base on the link above:

- 's' should really be snowfall now
- But if the software letter is 'W', they it can't be snowfall
- Normally wind speed would be taken from the XXX/YYY<rest of WX
sentence> format

Is that correct?

Now you also mention that the characters '/W' and '\W' can be used
interchangeably with '/_' or '\_' in the APRS Data field.

Not to pick on anyone's packet but:

N1MIW-1>APU25N,K1IMD-14,KA2RLM-15,WIDE2*:@070113z4139.23N/07134.69W_206/000g015t076r000p000P000h74b10118/WX

So the '_' already denotes this as a WX string.  However what does the
'/WX' serve?  Where would I find any of the characters you mention
above?  Isn't '_' sufficient to denote a WX string?

Finally, can I assume that the software character will NEVER conflict
with the weather data initials (e.g. c, s, g, etc.)?  i.e. Does it act
as a delimiter between the two?

[on a side note, what is the most update list of software characters?]

Thanks!

-aps (KC2ZSX)