Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values innetcdf cf

2009-10-27 Thread Lowry, Roy K
ist/GGS1/2/ Cheers, Roy. -Original Message- From: John Caron [mailto:ca...@unidata.ucar.edu] Sent: 27 October 2009 13:17 To: Lowry, Roy K Cc: martin.juc...@stfc.ac.uk; cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu; Weatherall, Pauline Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values i

Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values innetcdf cf

2009-10-27 Thread John Caron
Lowry, Roy K wrote: Hello Martin, There is another possible solution to your problem, which we are looking at for dealing with a data source flag to be used with the GEBCO bathymetric grid. This is to put a URI base into an attribute that when concatenated with a flag values gives the flag d

Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values innetcdf cf

2009-10-27 Thread John Caron
martin.juc...@stfc.ac.uk wrote: Thanks for the responses. Seth is right, I was looking for an alternative to having a gigantic "flag_meanings" attribute. I have tried Seth's approach, but can’t get it past the cf-checker. There appears to be a character set restriction: I can get the first 5

Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values innetcdf cf

2009-10-27 Thread Lowry, Roy K
- From: cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu [mailto:cf-metadata-boun...@cgd.ucar.edu] On Behalf Of martin.juc...@stfc.ac.uk Sent: 27 October 2009 10:45 To: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values innetcdf cf Thanks for the responses. Seth i

Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values innetcdf cf

2009-10-27 Thread martin.juckes
From: Seth McGinnis [mailto:mcgin...@ucar.edu] > Sent: 26 October 2009 23:13 > To: John Graybeal; Juckes, Martin (STFC,RAL,SSTD) > Cc: cf-metadata@cgd.ucar.edu > Subject: Re: [CF-metadata] Dealing with large numbers of flag values > innetcdf cf > > On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:16:17