Hi Roy,
Sorry about the lack of response and the lack of clear documentation.
We will check the documentation and clarify.
Ethan
On 2/23/2012 3:35 PM, Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
> Hi All:
> On Feb 23, 2012, at 2:21 PM, Hoop wrote:
>
>> Ethan,
>>
>> I looked at the featureCollection documentation link you gave, but since
>> our data are not forecasts, nor point data, nor in GRIB2 format, that
>> didn't seem the right fit. Maybe I'm wrong; I'm severely sleep-deprived
>> right now....
>>
>
>
>
> Awhile back I wrote, and never got a response, that
> "featureCollection" appeared to now be the preferred method to do
> aggregations, but the docs were really unclear as to how to do this for
> simple aggregations, or even if for the present version of TDS it is the
> preferred method.
>
> What would really help is if it could be a clear statement as to
> whether featureCollection is the preferred method, if the what has been
> the usual method through "datascan" and the like will be deprecated in
> the future, and clear documentation on not only setting up aggregations
> using featureCollection, but good (ie realistic, not trivial) examples
> of converting existing aggregations to featureCollection.
>
> Thanks
>
> -Roy