Re: notes from telecon

[John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Ben asked me to summarize the conversation about GDAL. I will do so in the expectation that Frank 
will correct/elaborate:

The GDAL library now reads NetCDF files using the CF-1 convention into GDAL's georeferencing data 
model, and so users of GDAL can now translate NetCDF/CF into GDAL's various outputs. The CF 
Convention parsing is done "loosely", meaning it doesnt try to do strict CF conformance.

This should allow WCS clients using GDAL (eg CadCORP) to recieve NetCDF files from the WCS server 
and properly display them, instead of needing to get GeoTIFFS. It should enable WCS servers using 
GDAL (eg MapServer) to read NetCDF/CF files and serve them over WCS.