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I would strongly encourage the inclusion of netcdf-4 inside GDAL. Not merely for HDF5, but also for OpenDAP. I just recently discovered that OpenDAP libraries are now being included built-in in the new netcdf4 : http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf/. Did not try it out myself yet, but then maybe we should think of dropping the OpenDAP support into GDAL but rather go for netcdf4? I am sure OpenDAP could will be maintained in time much better inside netcdf than in GDAL. OpenDAP is a very good and widely used protocol to share data over the internet. UNIDATA now confirms this by including it into their netcdf-4. Moreover, the new internal data models of netcdf, hdf and OpenDAP have been merged into the Common Data Model, CDM, http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/CDM/. I think it will be very wise to include OpenDAP/netcdf-4 support in GDAL. By the way, GDAL/netcdf-4 seems to be my only was of being able to access OpenDAP data from inside R. I am ready to be a part of the team and help for this and many other things. All I need would a little be of help to get me started. Servet -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/GDAL-with-netCDF4-support-tp2034490p4791098.html Sent from the GDAL - Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ gdal-dev mailing list gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/gdal-dev
