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20040701: NOAA ENC charts are netCDF?

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  • Subject: 20040701: NOAA ENC charts are netCDF?
  • Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 08:38:48 -0600
>From: "Justin Senseney" <address@hidden>
>Organization: ?
>Keywords: 200407011258.i61CwiWb001667 netCDF NOAA ENC charts

Justin,

>I'm trying to determine whether NOAA's ENC charts, available at
>http://chartmaker.ncd.noaa.gov/mcd/enc/download.htm
with file extension ".000", are compatible with netCDF.

The best way to do this is:

- download a file (make sure to get it in binary mode if you are using
  FTP)

- install the netCDF package on your machine

- use the netCDF utility 'ncdump -h' to try and list out the file header

If 'ncdump -h' works on the file, it is netCDF format; if it doesn't,
it isn't.

Cheers,

Tom Yoksas
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