[FWTools] OpeNDAP and GDAL - I am going brain dead

[Michael Sumner]

Do you have the OpenDAP driver support built?  Does gdal_translate 
--formats report OpenDAP as supported? If so you are much farther ahead 
than we ever got.

When a (much more experienced) friend of mine looked at this with me, it 
came down to incredibly difficult-to-debug problems involving OpenDAP's 
dependencies when compiling from source. This was using Cygwin: his 
conclusion was "wait until someone fixes xyz".  I think "xyz" might have 
been libcurl, or something that depends on in turn.

We didn't get close to compiling the OpenDAP sources - which is the 
starting point you would work from in order to build GDAL support for 
that driver.

I'd rather lobby for worldwide, permanent abandonment of this format, 
than to try to figure it all out. It's incredibly limited and painful to 
use even when it "works", requiring endless augmentation to obtain 
usable data, in my experience (which was by running Matlab processes on 
Linux from R).

But if you make any progress I'd love to hear about it.

Cheers, Mike.

Roy Mendelssohn wrote:
> Hi Folks:
>
> I am getting old and brain dead,  I am just not understanding how to 
> use GDAL to read a grid  (3D or 4D) from an OpeNDAP server and convert 
> it to an image.  If anyone would be so kind as to provide one working 
> example that would help a lot.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Roy M.
>
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