Glad to see I'm not the only one to have difficulty with those sentences. I would appreciate a rewording to clarify the relationship.
On Aug 14, 2013, at 8:17 AM, Karl Taylor <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear all, > > In the Overview section 1.3 of the CF standards, the following sentence > appears: > > " In cases where coordinate variables are not applicable, the variables > containing coordinate data are identified by the coordinates attribute." > > This implies to me that "where coordinate variables *are* applicable, one > should not use the coordinates attribute to identify them", which is > incorrect, since near the beginning of chapter 5 we state " Note that it is > permissible, but optional, to list coordinate variables as well as auxiliary > coordinate variables in the coordinates attribute. " > > If anyone else thinks the sentence in the overview section is misleading, > perhaps we should submit a "defect" changing that sentence to: > > "The second option is to include the coordinates attribute, which identifies > variables which are not necessarily "coordinate variables" in the NUG-defined > sense, but which in fact are used to store coordinates." > > What do you think? > > cheers, > Karl > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > CF-metadata mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata -- Dr. Christopher Lynnes, NASA/GSFC, ph: 301-614-5185 _______________________________________________ CF-metadata mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.cgd.ucar.edu/mailman/listinfo/cf-metadata
