Re: Question about TDS OpenDAP

On 1/17/2012 10:09 AM, Estanislao Gonzalez wrote:
> Thanks john. So basically I should tell the user that he should grab 
> the file locally to be used for ncdump, unless it can work with 
> OpenDAP directly).
>
> This clarifies a lot. I did see an OpenDAP server somewhere with a 
> download as NetCDF button, which apparently did the trimming and 
> packed the result into a NetCDF file. Is there any though about doing 
> something like this in TDS?

The problem is that if the file is not a netcdf file, you have to 
convert it. Also theres some glitches in the data model we hope to fix 
with DAP 4.