Re: PointObsDatasetFactory

• To: Stuart Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: PointObsDatasetFactory
• From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2006 15:08:54 -0700

Stuart Wier wrote:

John,

I have some observation data (such as http://geon.unavco.org/unavco/CDL/GPS_sample.cdl) which works in the IDV. (In PointObsDatasetFactory in your nc2.2 it is picked up as a OldUnidataPointObsDataset which has

public class OldUnidataPointObsDataset extends PointObsDatasetImpl {
  static private String latName = "lat";
  static private String lonName = "lon";
  static private String altName = "Depth";
  static private String timeName = "timeObs";

I would like to replace variable names lat,lon,Depth,timeObs
with latitude,longitude,depth,time
to be consistent with your Unidata Observation Dataset v1.0 conventions.

But when I make that change the IDV gives

ucar.unidata.data.BadDataException: Unable to make a PointObsDataset from GPS_sample.nc

Error = Cant find a Point/Station adapter for GPS_sample.nc

How can I make an observation data file that uses latitude,longitude,depth,time?

the variable names Depth and timeObs are ugly and not in the convention. I have a faint memory that I created them for some GEON data more than a year ago. Now I can't

get rid of them!

Stu

Hi Stu: