On Tue, Sep 27, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Chris Barker <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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? > > I agree--it sounds almost absurd to take a file format whose claim to fame is being self-describing, and use it to store data in a format that is no longer self-describing. I also lean (though less strongly) towards applying this same argument to well-known text. Ryan -- Ryan May, Ph.D. Software Engineer UCAR/Unidata Boulder, CO
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