#164: Simple Geometries in CF
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Reporter: whiteaker | Owner: cf-conventions@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Priority: medium | Milestone:
Component: cf-conventions | Version:
Keywords: geometry |
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Dave Blodgett, others, and I have developed a contribution which augments
Chapter 7 of the CF conventions with the ability to describe simple
geometries such as lines and polygons. This is useful when encoding
feature geometries for data variables like average precipitation over a
watershed or velocity in a river segment.
We proposed this contribution on GitHub via a pull request, in part to
help test the GitHub workflow for making changes to CF. This has been a
bit of a struggle as we iron out the GitHub kinks. In the meantime,
Jonathan Gregory suggested that to move the process along, we open a trac
ticket for this as a proposed change to 1.7.
GitHub pull request and discussion:
https://github.com/cf-convention/cf-conventions/pull/115
Rendered proposal (the Geometries section is at the end):
https://github.com/dblodgett-usgs/cf-
conventions/blob/7768e33e7edff459482e8ef8057ea6b8e015c9eb/ch07.adoc
I appreciate your consideration of this proposal. If more discussion of
this proposal is required, I ask that you continue the discussion in
GitHub. Thanks!
Tim Whiteaker
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Ticket URL: <https://cf-trac.llnl.gov/trac/ticket/164>
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