sgrieve / GeoMeta

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Decide on the metadata we need to store #2

Closed sgrieve closed 6 years ago

sgrieve commented 6 years ago

We will need as a minimum:

ageorgou commented 6 years ago

To implement the round-trip transformation as per #9, we will need to write a new file using rasterio, which in turn requires the following fields (http://rasterio.readthedocs.io/en/latest/quickstart.html#opening-a-dataset-in-writing-mode):

The following are listed as optional, so they probably should be recorded to make sure the transformation is correct:

ageorgou commented 6 years ago

We are currently leaving the nodata field out (see the (code) comments in 1621e45 for details of why).

Note that this shouldn't affect the process, since locations with missing data should be ignored anyway.