[CF-metadata] CF-2

From: Chris Barker <chris.barker>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 11:56:13 -0700

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 9:24 AM, Ted Habermann <thabermann at hdfgroup.org>
wrote:


> One other item that you might consider is sparse coordinate variables...
> These would be coordinate variables that have fewer items than the axis
> they are related to or essentially coordinate variables with a stride.
>

I'm lost here -- can you elaborate?

Say you have an Axis with 1,000,000 elements.

you have a coordinate variable with 100,000 elements

Do ten values map to each coordinate value? or are you supposed to
interpolate?

Could you do this with a cell_method approach?


> This capability could be very helpful as we move to higher resolution
> datasets
>

Maybe an example is in order.

-Chris

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