[CF-metadata] station name and ID

2016-11-01 Thread Ateljevich, Eli@DWR
I have scalar time series from USGS and NOAA, both of which use an integer code 9414290 and a readable name "San Francisco, CA". Any suggestions how to list them both and which is preferred for timeseries_id? Can anyone give me an example of what typically goes in "station_info", something that

Re: [CF-metadata] Feedback requested on proposed CF Simple Geometries

2016-11-01 Thread Chris Barker
A little note: On Tue, Nov 1, 2016 at 9:43 AM, Chris Barker wrote: > I'm on shakier ground about when you want to use a GeometryCollection vs a > FeatureCollection, but I _think_ that the point of a geometrycollection is > that you can group different types of geometry -- but still want them to

Re: [CF-metadata] Handling time when date is "missing"

2016-11-01 Thread Seth McGinnis
Hi Ajay, The problem is that the offset representation is the CF standard for how to record time, and that's what standards-aware software that displays it quickly and easily relies upon. If you don't know how much time has passed since the reference time, it's just plain not possible to record i

Re: [CF-metadata] Handling time when date is "missing"

2016-11-01 Thread Dave Allured - NOAA Affiliate
Ajay, It seems that you just contradicted yourself. First you asked how to encode time coordinates when some measurements have time of day, but the date is missing. Now you are saying that a valid date/time coordinate is required. But a valid date/time coordinate is not possible without complet

Re: [CF-metadata] White space in CF standard names

2016-11-01 Thread alison.pamment
Dear Gwyn, Many thanks for your query. You are right that there should not be any white space within a standard name and if you do find examples of this, please continue to report them to the mailing list and I will correct them as part of the regular updates to the standard name table. There

Re: [CF-metadata] White space in CF standard names

2016-11-01 Thread Lowry, Roy K.
Thanks Gwyn, That is what is known as an error in need of correction and should be dealt with by aliasing in the next release. I've also copied in a couple of colleagues in BODC so we can take steps to prevent embedded blanks in Standard Names. We work in collaboration with CF and run a seri

Re: [CF-metadata] White space in CF standard names

2016-11-01 Thread Gwyn Fireman
Right. But "rate_of_ hydroxyl_radical_destruction_due_to_reaction_with_nmvoc" is an entry, not an alias. On 11/01/2016 04:27 AM, Lowry, Roy K. wrote: Aliasing is the mechanism used by CF to deprecate Standard Names and was applied to

Re: [CF-metadata] Handling time when date is "missing"

2016-11-01 Thread Ajay Krishnan - NOAA Affiliate
Thanks a lot for the suggestions, Dave, Ed and Seth. Seth, here's the response from the team that's working on the data: The first solution is not realistic. There are too many missing times - separating out into another data variable would give the user a bifurcated data set. The second

Re: [CF-metadata] Feedback requested on proposed CF Simple Geometries

2016-11-01 Thread Chris Barker
A few comments, though you all seem to have this in hand :-) I was asking whether this means that for each *collection* (of points, > lines or > polygons) there is a *single* timeseries. I don't get why this matters -- any number of time series could be associated with a single "entity" -- just

Re: [CF-metadata] White space in CF standard names

2016-11-01 Thread alison.pamment
Hi Gwyn, Many thanks for checking. I’m pleased that we seem to have managed to correct all these errors now. Best wishes, Alison -- Alison Pamment Tel: +44 1235 778065 Centre for Environmental Data Analysis Email: alison.pamm..

Re: [CF-metadata] White space in CF standard names

2016-11-01 Thread Gwyn Fireman
That was the only one, found with the following command: grep -w entry cf-standard-name-table.xml | cut -s -d\" -f2 | grep " " On 11/01/2016 10:43 AM, alison.pamm...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: there should not be any white space with

Re: [CF-metadata] White space in CF standard names

2016-11-01 Thread alison.pamment
Hi Roy, Many thanks for this. The current version of the editor software that I use to maintain the standard name table does check for stray white space, so hopefully there won't be any more instances of this in the future, but I agree that it's a good idea to check that they are being submitte