It's common that someone will want to create metadata for a dataset that is already stored remotely somewhere. So geometamaker should be able to open a dataset at a remote URL, read file metadata (e.g. gdalinfo stuff), and read any existing MCF.
GDAL (and for the most part pygeoprocessing) can already do this. So added functionality we need from geometamaker is the ability to read an existing remote MCF.
It's common that someone will want to create metadata for a dataset that is already stored remotely somewhere. So geometamaker should be able to open a dataset at a remote URL, read file metadata (e.g.
gdalinfostuff), and read any existing MCF.GDAL (and for the most part pygeoprocessing) can already do this. So added functionality we need from
geometamakeris the ability to read an existing remote MCF.