[cf-pointobsconvention] Draft 2

Don Murray dmurray at unidata.ucar.edu
Sat Sep 22 08:23:53 MDT 2007


John-

John Caron wrote:

> Well, maybe you're right. I notice that CF currently doesnt require
> vertical coords. But as a visualizing client, how do you display?
> Wouldnt you prefer to insist on something?

No.  We import lots of data point data stored in text files that
only has lat/lon coords.  In the IDV, we plot the data at the
default Z location defined by the user if we don't have a Z dimension.
We don't always want to assume 0 for the Z value.

DOn



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