I'm with you, Nan. On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Nan Galbraith <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi All - > > I agree with John Caron's wording. > > It should be the responsibility of the application using auxiliary > coordinates > to respond "predictably". In many cases this would mean ignoring data > where > coords are missing, but that's not "unpredictable." Trying to draw a > point at, or > calculate a distance to, a null location would be unpredictable behavior. > > I don't think this puts too much burden on software developers, but I'm > curious > to know if others see it differently. > > Thanks - Nan > > > > > On 3/28/12 2:09 PM, John Graybeal wrote: > >> suggest the more general "but applications using the auxiliary >> coordinates to work with data may respond unpredictably when the auxiliary >> coordinates are missing." >> >> john >> >> On Mar 28, 2012, at 10:07, John Caron wrote: >> >> On 3/28/2012 10:49 AM, John Caron wrote: >>> >>>> I think we have a number of valid use cases for missing data in aux >>>> coordinates, and i would vote to allow that. >>>> >>> sorry i didnt really answer jonathan's concern. I would suggest this >>> wording: >>> >>> Auxiliary coordinates do not have to be monotonic or have unique values, >>> and may contain missing values. Data providers may choose to put valid data >>> where the auxiliary coordinates are missing, but applications are free to >>> assume that data is missing where the auxiliary coordinates are missing. >>> >>> > -- > ********************************************************* > * Nan Galbraith Information Systems Specailist * > * Upper Ocean Processes Group Mail Stop 29 * > * Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution * > * Woods Hole, MA 02543 (508) 289-2444 * > ********************************************************* > > > > > ______________________________**_________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/**mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata<http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata> > -- Jim Biard Research Scholar Cooperative Institute for Climate and Satellites Remote Sensing and Applications Division National Climatic Data Center 151 Patton Ave, Asheville, NC 28801-5001 [email protected] 828-271-4900
_______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
