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




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