Re: Mercator Projection

Thanks John.  You just made my life easier.  We will give it some  
testing over the next several weeks to months.

-Roy

On Mar 12, 2008, at 10:58 AM, John Caron wrote:

> yes, we support mercator projection. you should probably test test  
> the WCS with that projection, though, but i suspect it will be ok.
>
> Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
> > Hi John:
> >
> > In the work we are doing with the NOAA IOOS program office, we may  
> > have to be able to provide data that is in a Mercator projection   
> > (i prefer just giving a lat-lon grid and letting the client side  
> > re-project the data but we may not have that option.). This would  
> > be through the WCS service in the TDS, using netcdf as the file  
> > format.  I believe TDS allows for some projections, is that  
> > correct?  Is mercator one of them?  If not, since I believe there  
> > are some projections, there might be some easy hooks for someone  
> > like Bob Simons to add that.
> >
> > Basically any info you can provide would be helpful.
> >
> > -Roy
> >
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Roy Mendelssohn
Supervisory Operations Research Analyst
NOAA/NMFS
Environmental Research Division 
Southwest Fisheries Science Center
1352 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950-2097

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