Thanks for all the great input, Bert. One comment:
> > 5) Besides inventing our own storage format (either in line with UGRID or > CF), a third way was discussed namely: to store the simple geometry shapes > as ascii or binary blobs in an extended format NetCDF 4 file. I think binary blobs is a really bad idea (and what would be the format of those blobs? shape files? or maybe WEll KnownBinary? But WellKnownText or geoJSON might be reasonable. I'd still rather have it done "properly" with netcdf arrays. -Chris -- Christopher Barker, Ph.D. Oceanographer Emergency Response Division NOAA/NOS/OR&R (206) 526-6959 voice 7600 Sand Point Way NE (206) 526-6329 fax Seattle, WA 98115 (206) 526-6317 main reception [email protected]
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