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simple guidelines for publishing open data in useful formats
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NetCDF does support projections #17

Closed scw closed 8 years ago

scw commented 10 years ago

The current section mentions using NetCDF exclusively for non-geographical array data, but wanted to mention that the base spec (and particularly, with the CF conventions), NetCDF supports a handful of the most common projections and should be considered fair game for interchange of geographic data -- it's widely used in the oceanographic and climatic worlds without issue for interchanging multidimensional sets of geographically referenced data.

tmcw commented 8 years ago

For larger raster datasets and non-geographical array data, NetCDF is another good choice with wide support.

I wrote & parse this sentence with an and, so it covers both "larger raster datasets" which are geographical as implied by the rest of the paragraph and non-geographical raster data.

scw commented 8 years ago

Yeah, I misinterpreted. :+1: