Regarding 
https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/pull/133#issuecomment-409922969 
from @marqh - agreed, I had been looking at it from my somewhat narrowed 
perspective at EUMETSAT HQ, but you're absolutely right about model data. I'm 
familiar with many other users who would agree that it's redundant to supply 
coordinates for all of those. 

Regarding 
https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/pull/133#issuecomment-409924422,
 I like `either | or` as well - the point is that coordinates can be 
reconstructed, supplying them for gridded data would be more the edge case 
IMHO. This is in line with the way the rest of the geospatial community does 
things.

So I would agree with this ticket if as @davidhassell suggests a grid mapping 
is mandatory if coordinates are not supplied. This way we'd have a guarantee 
that the data within a CF file could be geolocated. The point is that the user 
must have some way of reconstructing the positions of the geophysical 
quantities in space and time.

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