Re: [gdal-dev] discussion on improvements to the NetCDF driver and CF-1 convention

2011-08-25 Thread Hendy Sumanto
the current NetCDF driver and its CF-1 convention could be improved. Hendy - Original Message - From: "James Hiebert" To: gdal-dev@lists.osgeo.org Sent: Friday, 26 August, 2011 3:50:09 AM Subject: Re: [gdal-dev] discussion on improvements to the NetCDF driver and CF-1

Re: [gdal-dev] discussion on improvements to the NetCDF driver and CF-1 convention

2011-08-25 Thread James Hiebert
FWIW my organization is a heavy user of both GDAL and geographic netcdfs (usually disparately since GDAL can't always handle the CF-1.x compliant files that we have/use/create). So if you're assessing need in the community, I'll add a +1. Not sure how much I can help; I'm not an expert in eith

Re: [gdal-dev] discussion on improvements to the NetCDF driver and CF-1 convention

2011-08-25 Thread Kyle Shannon
Etienne, I am all for the improvements. I am a little short on time for the next 2-4 weeks, but I would like to spend some time on this. I think that the closer we get to a CF-1.x compliant file the better. That also gives us a little better specification to work towards. I hope to have some mo

[gdal-dev] discussion on improvements to the NetCDF driver and CF-1 convention

2011-08-24 Thread Etienne Tourigny
Hi all, I would like to start a discussion with those interested about fixing various issues in the NetCDF driver. As it stands, it is not fully CF-1.0 compliant, and produces geographical grids that are not valid for other software. Also, the infamous "up-side down" problem has been addressed f