Making web-repository of gridded maps: NetCDF or WKT Raster?

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Tomislav Hengl

Dear R-sig-geo,

As a part of our project (EcoGRID.nl) we have prepared some 60 thematic
grids that we use as auxiliary predictors for species distribution modeling.
At this stage, we would like to put the gridded maps (50/100 m base
resolution) into some efficient sharable geo-database.

One very random idea for this kind of thing would be to use the
software behind the IRI Data Library:

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/index.html

It has a built in processing language ('ingrid') for manipulating data
on the server before returning it to the client, supports multiple
output map formats, data selection, non-spatial data, high-dimensional
data etc etc. You can map stuff and download it:

http://iridl.ldeo.columbia.edu/SOURCES/.NASA/.GPCP/.V2p1/.AGPI/figviewer.html?plottype=colors

and it's apparently easy to write server-side processing modules to
provide add-on functionality by writing new ingrid functions.

The only problem is that the code behind it doesn't seem to be
available, which is a real shame...

Barry

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