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Refactor importers #218

Open dnerini opened 3 years ago

dnerini commented 3 years ago

The current importer module includes a fairly arbitrary list of importers that are specific to data formats used by various national weather services. This list cannot grow indefinitely each time a new use case appears.

Instead, we should leverage the recent option to use importer plugins and only keep importers that are general enough.

I therefore suggest to

migrate importers that are specific to a national data format as separate plugins (hosted wherever it makes more sense, including the parent pySTEPS organization account).
keep only importers that refer to internation standards, as for example the ODIM HDF5 format (see #214).

RubenImhoff commented 2 years ago

For the nwp_importers work in progress in the separate pysteps-nwp-importers repo. See: https://github.com/pySTEPS/pysteps-nwp-importers/pull/1