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Bill, >Date: Thu, 06 Apr 2000 12:45:03 -0500 >From: Bill Hibbard <hibbard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >To: Stuart Wier <wier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: Re: basic topology and the Data Model with geo-locations In the above message, you wrote: > 3. ((lat, lon, alt) -> (time, obs)) > In this case, the domain Set would be a Gridded3DSet with > manifold dimension = 1. This is probably the preferable > way, since it preserves the notion that the spatial points > are along a path rather than just a random scatter. How would one programatically know that "time" is the manifold variable and not "obs"? Regards, Steve Emmerson <http://www.unidata.ucar.edu>
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