http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/caron/public/CFch9-may10.pdf
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Jonathan Gregory <j.m.gregory at reading.ac.uk
> wrote:
> Dear Chris
>
> > >I think its time to start using netcdf-4 for large collections of point
> > >data which need to be compressed. Instead of first making a standard, we
> > >need to try out the possibilities and see how it performs.
> >
> > That may be true, time to move on eventually! However, you can use
> > netcdf4 for compression, but stille use a netcdf3 compatible data
> > model, so I'd like to see netcdf4-only features used only if they
> > really are necessary to get the data model we need.
>
> That could be done if you can represent the data using a new kind of
> featureType to be added to the CF chapter on discrete sampling geometries,
> which will be included in CF 1.6 (coming soon). The text for the discrete
> sampling geometry chapter is at
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/caron/public/CFch9-feb25_jg.pdf
>
> Best wishes
>
> Jonathan
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