RE: redo striped.nc, change WCS URLs

• To: "John Caron" <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <galeon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: RE: redo striped.nc, change WCS URLs
• From: "Martin Daly" <Martin.Daly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:45:03 +0100

 http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8088/thredds/wcs/testdata/striped.nc
 http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8088/thredds/wcs/testdata/sst.nc
 http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8088/thredds/wcs/testdata/RUC.nc

I think I have fixed the first round of bugs, so please try again.

There is a slight problem in the capabilities documents.  The onlineResource URLs 
do not end in '?' or '&' as is mandatory in the spec (section 6.3.1 again).  
However, that section also recommends that clients be prepared for just such a 
case.  Our client is, or at least it is *now*.

The RUC.nc service returns GeoTIFF-s with extents much bigger than the world.  Is it really 
an EPSG:4326 dataset?  The RectifiedGrid/origin/pos from this request 
http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8088/thredds/wcs/testdata/RUC.nc?REQUEST=DescribeCoverage&SERVICE=WCS&VERSION=1.0.0&COVERAGE=Geopotential_height
 suggests otherwise.

Finally, the 0 to 360 range doesn't seem to be a problem - at least for our 
client - because the result of the request, below, is a GeoTIFF with coords in 
the -180 to 180 range, and we trust that.  I must admit to being a bit 
uncomfortable with the discrepancy though, and would prefer the -180 to 180 
range throughout.  I think that that would maximise interoperability.

http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8088/thredds/wcs/testdata/sst.nc?SERVICE=WCS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetCoverage&COVERAGE=tos&CRS=EPSG%3a4326&BBOX=1,-79.5,359,89.5&FORMAT=GeoTIFF&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_xml

Regards,
Martin

P.S. "striped.nc" is well named:
http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8088/thredds/wcs/testdata/striped.nc?SERVICEWCS&VERSION=1.0.0&REQUEST=GetCoverage&COVERAGE=ta&Vertical=100.0&CRS=EPSG%3a4326&BBOX=0,-89.4375,358.875,89.4375&FORMAT=GeoTIFF&EXCEPTIONS=application/vnd.ogc.se_xml

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