Wouldn’t you gain in getting more active in OGC standard groups that
try to address the same issues as NetCDF before making up your mind??
Or perhaps OGC should have gotten more involved in existing processes
and standards instead of reinventing the wheel, and most importantly
ignoring how the community actually uses and thinks about their data.
I am also aware of some of the SWE test beds, and for the purposes of
how we use data, have yet to see one that is actually operational (as
opposed to on paper) that meets our needs. Several existing community
standards and services do indeed meet these, but better we let the
spec designers from outside the community decide for us.
Just for info, we have about 20TB of data online and growing, and
serve data worldwide,
-roy
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