[CF-metadata] GIS versus CF conventions

From: Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 08:00:52 +0100

Dear Balaji

> There are mechanisms for assuring integrity of linkages between multiple
> files in a dataset, and _efficient_ software for the aggregation layers
> is a requirement as well.

Yes. At present the CF standard is written strictly for individual files. We
don't have any statement that the data could be spread over several files,
although some applications may already be doing this. It has been argued that
such generalisations are rather dependent on software implementations. Can we
nonetheless say anything in the standard about it, do you (or anyone) think?

Cheers

Jonathan
Received on Tue Aug 30 2005 - 01:00:52 BST