Re: [THREDDS #XIG-399067]: default colorScaleRange for WMS within theTDS?

Jon Blower wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The colour scale range is set per-variable, not per-dataset.  The only
> sensible way I can see for a sysadmin to configure this accurately would
> be within the TDS catalog in NcML, for example:
>
> <variable name="temp">
>     <attribute name="defaltColorScaleRange" value="-5.0 35.0"/>
> </variable>
>
> (If we agreed on a syntax for this it would be an easy change in the WMS
> code I think.)
>
> It might also be possible to provide a global set of defaults per CF
> standard name in a configuration file for variables that don't define a
> range explicitly.
>
> What do others think?
>
> Jon

Hiya:

1. what does ncWms currently do for default? Use data min/max?

2. Rich, what would a hand-configured option typically do?

John