Re: [netCDFJava #WHS-849334]: point observation question

On 4/7/2010 8:11 AM, Rich Signell wrote:
> John,
>
> I was trying to help Ellyn Montgomery on this ticket item, and we were
> trying to pattern our station data after the example you provided via
> a zip file to Nan Galbraith many moons ago.
>
> We've spent 2 hours on this, and we although the CoordSys views look
> identical on these two NcML files, the one you created
> ("station.ncml") works fine as Point/Station, while the one we created
> ("usgs.ncml") fails to open with Point with the error:
>
> Can't open C:/RPS/cf/oceansites/usgs.ncml:
> NestedTable: cant find variable lat for coordinate type Lat
> NestedTable: cant find variable lon for coordinate type Lon
> NestedTable: cant find variable deth for coordinate type Elev
> Table Structure(record):lat/lon/time coord not found
>
> We have reached the point of no return.   Can you spend 5 min with the
> attached zip file and save us?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
>    

you need to add the infamous:

<attribute name="Conventions" value="CF-1.5"/>

FYI, use FeatureTypes/FeatureScan in ToolsUI to help debug. Can scan an 
entire direcrory tree. left click to view in other tabs.

this wouldnt have told you what was missing, but you might have noticed 
that it wasnt getting parsed as CF like station.ncml was.