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Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? [message #66089 is a reply to message #66088]

Fri, 03 April 2009 09:43

Paul Van Delst[1]
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David Fanning wrote:
> Paul van Delst writes:
>
>> Do any insiders out there know about the status of future support for netCDF-4 in IDL? I
>> received third/fourth-hand news yesterday that there are no plans for IDL to support
>> netCDF-4 and I wanted to get some more scoop before contacting ITTVIS directly. I searched
>> the ng on google but didn't find anything.
>
> I have absolutely *no* inside information about ITTVIS's
> plans, but from the perspective of someone on the periphery
> of a project (not using IDL) that is thinking about supporting
> netCDF-4, I can certainly understand why they would have no
> current plans to do so. The lack of tools and good documentation
> make this a constant frustration to deal with. Not to mention,
> in our case, a cumbersome scheme for including map information
> in the file. I think everyone is probably holding their breath,
> hoping (against reason, I'm sure) that no one wants to use
> this format. :-)
>
> At the very least, I think most companies will wait for things
> to settle down a bit before tackling the project. This seems
> reasonable to me.

Hmm.. interesting. The issue here is that, in some cases, netCDF-4 has been adopted as a
standard for product output. No IDL netCDF-4 support, means no IDL usage. At the very
least, it means a whole of more make-work to visualise the data (e.g. convert from
netCDFv4 to v3.6) and some prayers to hope that the data conversion didn't introduce any
artifacts.

Sigh. I thought common data formats (like netCDF) and tools (like IDL) were supposed to
make out lives *easier*.

cheers,

paulv

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		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: Mark[1] on Tue, 07 April 2009 22:17
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 06 April 2009 11:27
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: David Fanning on Mon, 06 April 2009 10:05
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Mon, 06 April 2009 10:01
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: R.Bauer on Mon, 06 April 2009 02:09
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: George White on Sat, 04 April 2009 11:35
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 April 2009 13:29
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: ben.bighair on Fri, 03 April 2009 13:14
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 April 2009 10:27
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: Paul Van Delst[1] on Fri, 03 April 2009 09:43
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: Andy Heaps on Fri, 03 April 2009 09:40
		Re: netCDF-4 support in IDL? By: David Fanning on Fri, 03 April 2009 06:52

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