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Descriptions in areas.yaml need cleanup #1207

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@gerritholl

Describe the bug

Many descriptions of areas defined in areas.yaml are incorrect. They appear copy-pasted from other descriptions.

To Reproduce

Some examples:

satpy/satpy/etc/areas.yaml

Lines 129 to 140 in b8bd9ab

worldeqc30km:
description: World in 3km, platecarree
projection:
proj: eqc
ellps: WGS84
shape:
height: 410
width: 820
area_extent:
lower_left_xy: [-20037508.3428, -10018754.1714]
upper_right_xy: [20037508.3428, 10018754.1714]
units: m

(this is not the world in 3 km, and it cannot be 3 km worldwide if it's plate caree)

satpy/satpy/etc/areas.yaml

Lines 239 to 253 in b8bd9ab

phil:
description: kuwait area
projection:
proj: merc
lat_0: 10.0
lat_ts: 10.0
lon_0: 125.0
ellps: WGS84
shape:
height: 2048
width: 4096
area_extent:
lower_left_xy: [-2200000.0, 0.0]
upper_right_xy: [2200000.0, 2200000.0]
units: m

(not Kuwait!)

satpy/satpy/etc/areas.yaml

Lines 510 to 523 in b8bd9ab

euro1:
description: Euro 4km area - Europe
projection:
proj: stere
ellps: bessel
lat_0: 90.0
lon_0: 14.0
lat_ts: 60.0
shape:
height: 4096
width: 4096
area_extent:
lower_left_xy: [-2717181.7304994687, -5571048.14031214]
upper_right_xy: [1378818.2695005313, -1475048.1403121399]

(not at 4 km)

satpy/satpy/etc/areas.yaml

Lines 1093 to 1106 in b8bd9ab

euroasia_10km:
description: Euroasia - Global 1km USGS Landuse database
projection:
proj: laea
a: 6370997.0
b: 6370997.0
lat_0: 55.0
lon_0: 20.0
shape:
height: 1300
width: 1300
area_extent:
lower_left_xy: [-3000000.0, -4999000.0]
upper_right_xy: [9999000.0, 8000000.0]

(1 km or 10 km?)

There are several others.

Expected behavior

I expect that descriptions are accurate and useful.

Actual results

Actual descriptions are sometimes accurate, sometimes inaccurate. Sometimes useful, sometimes not useful.

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