Re: Support for projections (was GALEON WCS testing on DataFed)

[Peter Baumann <p.baumann@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

IMHO we'll have to live with the fact that some servers may offer 
coverages not "compatible" with others, in the extreme case even across 
the same server.
I wouldn't enforce by standard that a server does reprojection on coverages.

feel free to flame me... ;-)
-Peter


John Caron wrote:

> Kari Hoijarvi wrote:
>
> > I don't know the correct CRS for the output data, but as a programmer 
> > I'd like suggest an approach from different direction:
> >
> > Everybody should support at least EPSG:4326.
> >
> > Because then you can overlay anything with anything else, with a 
> > simple offset+factor calculation. This would solve our problems 
> > immediately.
> >
> > Having additional projections is a nice plus, though.
>
>
> I guess this would imply that everyone must support reprojection to a 
> lat/lon grid. In Unidata's case we've been trying to see whether WCS 
> can be used for serving "raw" data.

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