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Hi Joe, Sorry to be so unresponsive, but we've got an all-consuming 2-day Unidata Users Committee meeting going on right now. I got your phone message yesterday, but haven't had time to look into it yet. > ATD is going to try to use LDM to send various data sets for the IHOP > project. > > We need advice on what feedtypes and product identifiers to use for > > 1) S-Pol radar data in DORADE sweepfile format > 2) Composite gridded radar data in netCDF format. > > I suppose I can start testing using the 'EXP' feed type, but if there is > a better naming convention, please let me know. The current feedtype assignments are available at: http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/ldm/feedtypes/index.html but I don't believe there is anything better than "EXP" to use for now. Product identifiers are completely up to you, with the following guidelines: - product IDs should be shorter than 255 bytes (KEYSIZE in protocol/ldm.h) - product IDs should be designed for regular expression pattern matching and extraction of information with substring matching - make sure the product ID contains all the info needed to route the product or to act on it with pqact.conf entries - don't use tabs or newlines in the product IDs (but spaces OK) - make your IDs unique enough that they are unlikely to clash with other products using the EXP feed type. Typically this is done with a short unique prefix on product IDs. (This may not be an issue if you are not on a network where other EXP products may appear.) There may be some better guidelines for product IDs; I'll look around as soon as I get a little spare time. --Russ