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Re: A netcdf suggestion

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  • Subject: Re: A netcdf suggestion
  • Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:33:08 -0600
Roy

Lynn deWitt wrote:

> This might already exist, but I was thinking that someone, maybe the 
> unidata folks, should write a GUI interface to create netcdf files. 
> Could be a spreadsheet sort of thing where you could import columns 
> from text files or Excel or whatever.  You could choose which columns 
> would be the "dimensions", have boxes where you could enter 
> attributes, have choices of "conventions", etc.  It would really help 
> non-programmers (ie most people these days) write proper netCDF files.

This is a good idea, and doesn't yet exist, as far as I know.  Thanks
for the suggestion.

--Russ