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>From: Rick Kohrs <address@hidden> >Organization: SSEC >Keywords: 200407271510.i6RFAraW021892 netCDF convert Hi Rick, >Do you know of any conversion program that takes text data and converts >it to netcdf? I talked with a few others here at Unidata, and nobody knows of a general purpose conversion utility that would do this for you. Creating a program to do the conversion should be very easy, however. The netCDF application 'ncgen' can be used to generate a program skeleton in C or Fortran based on a CDL file that you create (a CDL is somewhat akin to a database schema). The process would be: - examine the data you have to see how it would be best stored in a netCDF - create a CDL to describe the output netCDF - use 'ncgen' to create the program skeleton based on the CDL - edit the skeleton and flesh out the data reads/writes - compile and link the fleshed out program >I am toying with the idea of creating a netcdf file from >the GNIS database that is used to create the towns database. > >I'd like to use the population as a select clause and utitilze the >decluttering capabilities of PTDISP to plot city names. This all stems >from Travis Martin's request to plot city names and highway information >for radar products they are developing. The creation of a program to do what you want should be relatively easy. Let me know if you run into any conceptual snags. Cheers, Tom -- +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ * Tom Yoksas UCAR Unidata Program * * (303) 497-8642 (last resort) P.O. Box 3000 * * address@hidden Boulder, CO 80307 * * Unidata WWW Service http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/* +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+