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Ben & Roy- thanks for kicking off the first scenarios. Now I have tried to exercise my Wiki login, there is a new page containing your listings. It does not reflect latest discussion, you probably will want to adapt this. May I cordially invite everybody to feed this page! -Peter Ben Domenico wrote:
Roy, For now, let's just say that I understand your animal track scenario better now, but I'll put off an attempt to explain it in terms of my use cases. The more important issue that we agree on the starting point. In fact, my use cases were intended to illustrate the main data types in the CDM and CSML. The one nuance that I've added is that we explicitly consider collections of these data types. We often serve and request such space-time collections of point data, station data, trajectory data, etc. But, if you look at my use cases, I think you'll see pure point data (lightning), station data, profiles, radar radials, trajectories and gridded data. (I left out swath, but a representative swath case can be added.) Those encompass most of the data types in CSML and CDM. I am convinced there are a lot of OGC people who very much want to work with us on making such data collections available via standard interfaces.. My use cases are an attempt to get illustrate the types of data we work with. As I see it, the next important step is for us to come up with CF conventions for these data types. Then my view is that we can work within the OGC and ISO to establish these CF-netCDF as standard encodings for coverages. It won't all happen at once, but the conceptual framework is there; what remains to be done is to work to get each data type through the process -- one at a time if necessary or in parallel if different groups work on different data types. I think we are in basic agreement about the next steps. Maybe a phone call next week would be a better way to clarify our thoughts about a plan for getting where we want to be in the longer term. -- Ben
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