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[THREDDS #XIG-399067]: default colorScaleRange for WMS within the TDS?



On 6/2/2010 7:46 AM, Jon Blower wrote:
>> John Caron wrote:
>> 1. what does ncWms currently do for default? Use data min/max?
> 
> No - ncWMS uses a separate config file, which the sysadmin edits
> manually or through a web GUI.  This allows configuration
> per-variable.
> 
> I think this is a separate issue from data min/max - this is a
> *suggested* scale, which doesn't need to be precise.


On 6/2/2010 3:03 PM, Jon Blower wrote:
>> John Caron wrote:
>> what does the system do if the admin doesnt set a value
>> for that dataset?
> 
> ncWMS scans each dataset when it's first loaded into the system
> and makes a test extraction of a chunk of data from the first
> timestep and first z level from each variable.  Then it finds
> the min and max of this data subset, adding 10% at top and
> bottom.  It's far from perfect but it at least gives a reasonable
> guess, which the sysadmin can override if it turns out to be a
> bad choice.
> 
> If that doesn't work for any reason, ncWMS applies the default
> range [-50:50].  But this doesn't happen very often.
> 
> The estimated scale ranges are persisted to the ncWMS config
> file so they don't have to be recalculated when the server is
> rebooted.
> 
> I guess this approach would be difficult to apply in TDS, where
> the data catalogs could be very big.
> 
> Jon


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: XIG-399067
Department: Support THREDDS
Priority: Urgent
Status: Open