[Gdal-dev] Possible enhanced NetCDF support in GDAL

[A.Th.C. Hulst]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007 02:23:12 you wrote:
> Further to your comments,
>
> >My interest is also in the oceanographic field. I wonder whether it
>
> won't be
>
> >easier to display the data using a default rainbow pseudo colortable. I
>
> gues
>
> >that once you have that, you can modify the colortable with processing
> >options from mapserver.
>
> The way I specify colour tables is very easy and much easier than trying
> to do it through mapserver (in my opinion). Beyond that, I have little
> doubt it is faster too. The other thing to note is that rainbow colour
> tables are generally bad to use in data representation because human
> vision is much more sensitive to lightness change than hue change. As
> such, you can see much more detail in complex data by not using the
> rainbow map, though it seems that every man and his dog seems to want to
> use it. It seems to make some sense for SST data though.
One gets used to it ;)

I'll try your code the coming days. The maps look good. Whenever I made it 
into 1.4.1 I'll send you the results.

Best regards,
Sander