It isn't just about feature presentation, right? On the assumption that the latest version is always most current (so everyone will use the latest version if they can), I use the version as a proxy for how current/up-to-date/sophisticated the data provider is.
It also gives me a clue about which standard name table version they might use, though that version info is often available elsewhere.
If true, this may help explain why so few data providers seemed to be using 1.6, anyway....
John
On Aug 28, 2013, at 08:56, John Caron <caron at unidata.ucar.edu> wrote:
> Hi Sean:
>
> What feature of CF are you using that you need to preserve the version?
>
> John
>
> "If you torture data long enough, it will confess."
> -- Economist Ronald Coase
>
>
>
> On 8/28/2013 3:28 AM, Gaffney, Sean P. wrote:
>> Hi,
>> Here at the British Oceanographic Data Centre we use THREDDS to deliver
>> and subset our numerical model data that we hold in CF netcdf format.
>> I?ve just been made aware that during the delivery and subsetting
>> process, THREDDS seems to be converting the CF files we hold from
>> whatever CF convention they have been supplied in, to CF 1.0.
>> Is this something that the rest of the community are aware of, and if
>> so, do people consider it to be of major importance that the files
>> outputted by thredds are in a different convention to the source files
>> thredds interrogates?
>> Cheers
>> Sean Gaffney
>> BODC
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