[THREDDS #XIG-399067]: default colorScaleRange for WMS within the TDS?

Hi Rich,

Rich Signell wrote:
> How do I set the default colorScaleRange for WMS within the TDS?
> 
> I looked at
> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/tech/tds4.0/reference/WMS.html
> and didn't easily find the answer.

Later, Rich wrote:
> Since standard WMS does not honor the "&COLORSCALERANGE=" extension
> of ncWMS, being able to set the ColorScaleRange default values for
> the datasets served up via WMS is important.  In ncWMS, as you know,
> you can click on "edit" for each dataset in the Admin GUI and set
> the defaults for each variable, which then get stored in the
> config.xml file. Is there something like this for the TDS WMS?

I'm not as familiar with the ins-and-outs of ncWMS as one might suspect :-(. 
But I am sure that the TDS WMS does not currently have a way to set the 
ColorScaleRange default values on a per dataset basis. What is the default now? 
Just the valid range of each dataset? Do you know if ncWMS checks for any other 
attributes? Maybe some of those discussed on CF for this kind of thing 
(actual_min/max and such)?

I'm CCing Jon Blower to get the conversation started on how we could expose 
this capability in TDS.

Ethan


Ticket Details
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Ticket ID: XIG-399067
Department: Support THREDDS
Priority: Urgent
Status: Closed